netdev - [PATCH] netfilter: ipt_CLUSTERIP: dont flood with "no conntrack!"

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Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:13:29 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:	Netfilter Development Mailinglist 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: ipt_CLUSTERIP: dont flood with "no conntrack!"

ipt_CLUSTERIP users might hit this annoying printk, if they forgot an
"iptables -I INPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP" before CLUSTERIP
rule. We could use net_ratelimit() here, or not log the message at all.
I chose to log it once per config.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
---
 net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c |   13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c
index 1e26a48..bac8739 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct clusterip_config {
 	u_int8_t clustermac[ETH_ALEN];		/* the MAC address */
 	struct net_device *dev;			/* device */
 	u_int16_t num_total_nodes;		/* total number of nodes */
+	bool warned_no_conntrack;
 	unsigned long local_nodes;		/* node number array */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
@@ -301,10 +302,14 @@ clusterip_tg(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct xt_action_param *par)
 
 	ct = nf_ct_get(skb, &ctinfo);
 	if (ct == NULL) {
-		pr_info("no conntrack!\n");
-			/* FIXME: need to drop invalid ones, since replies
-			 * to outgoing connections of other nodes will be
-			 * marked as INVALID */
+		if (unlikely(!cipinfo->config->warned_no_conntrack)) {
+			cipinfo->config->warned_no_conntrack = true;
+			pr_info("no conntrack!\n");
+		}
+		/* FIXME: need to drop invalid ones, since replies
+		 * to outgoing connections of other nodes will be
+		 * marked as INVALID
+		 */
 		return NF_DROP;
 	}
 


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