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Commit 9f13ded8 authored by Jarno Rajahalme's avatar Jarno Rajahalme Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
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openvswitch: Add commentary to conntrack.c



This makes the code easier to understand and the following patches
more focused.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJoe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
parent 26461905
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@@ -152,8 +152,12 @@ static void ovs_ct_update_key(const struct sk_buff *skb,
	ct = nf_ct_get(skb, &ctinfo);
	if (ct) {
		state = ovs_ct_get_state(ctinfo);
		/* All unconfirmed entries are NEW connections. */
		if (!nf_ct_is_confirmed(ct))
			state |= OVS_CS_F_NEW;
		/* OVS persists the related flag for the duration of the
		 * connection.
		 */
		if (ct->master)
			state |= OVS_CS_F_RELATED;
		zone = nf_ct_zone(ct);
@@ -165,6 +169,9 @@ static void ovs_ct_update_key(const struct sk_buff *skb,
	__ovs_ct_update_key(key, state, zone, ct);
}

/* This is called to initialize CT key fields possibly coming in from the local
 * stack.
 */
void ovs_ct_fill_key(const struct sk_buff *skb, struct sw_flow_key *key)
{
	ovs_ct_update_key(skb, NULL, key, false);
@@ -199,7 +206,6 @@ static int ovs_ct_set_mark(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sw_flow_key *key,
	struct nf_conn *ct;
	u32 new_mark;


	/* The connection could be invalid, in which case set_mark is no-op. */
	ct = nf_ct_get(skb, &ctinfo);
	if (!ct)
@@ -375,6 +381,11 @@ static bool skb_nfct_cached(const struct net *net, const struct sk_buff *skb,
	return true;
}

/* Pass 'skb' through conntrack in 'net', using zone configured in 'info', if
 * not done already.  Update key with new CT state.
 * Note that if the packet is deemed invalid by conntrack, skb->nfct will be
 * set to NULL and 0 will be returned.
 */
static int __ovs_ct_lookup(struct net *net, struct sw_flow_key *key,
			   const struct ovs_conntrack_info *info,
			   struct sk_buff *skb)
@@ -418,6 +429,13 @@ static int ovs_ct_lookup(struct net *net, struct sw_flow_key *key,
{
	struct nf_conntrack_expect *exp;

	/* If we pass an expected packet through nf_conntrack_in() the
	 * expectation is typically removed, but the packet could still be
	 * lost in upcall processing.  To prevent this from happening we
	 * perform an explicit expectation lookup.  Expected connections are
	 * always new, and will be passed through conntrack only when they are
	 * committed, as it is OK to remove the expectation at that time.
	 */
	exp = ovs_ct_expect_find(net, &info->zone, info->family, skb);
	if (exp) {
		u8 state;
@@ -455,6 +473,7 @@ static int ovs_ct_commit(struct net *net, struct sw_flow_key *key,
	err = __ovs_ct_lookup(net, key, info, skb);
	if (err)
		return err;
	/* This is a no-op if the connection has already been confirmed. */
	if (nf_conntrack_confirm(skb) != NF_ACCEPT)
		return -EINVAL;