netfilter: ctnetlink: Resolve conntrack L3-protocol flush regression
Commit 59c08c69 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: Support L3 protocol-filter on flush") introduced a user-space regression when flushing connection track entries. Before this commit, the nfgen_family field was not used by the kernel and all entries were removed. Since this commit, nfgen_family is used to filter out entries that should not be removed. One example a broken tool is conntrack. conntrack always sets nfgen_family to AF_INET, so after 59c08c69 only IPv4 entries were removed with the -F parameter. Pablo Neira Ayuso suggested using nfgenmsg->version to resolve the regression, and this commit implements his suggestion. nfgenmsg->version is so far set to zero, so it is well-suited to be used as a flag for selecting old or new flush behavior. If version is 0, nfgen_family is ignored and all entries are used. If user-space sets the version to one (or any other value than 0), then the new behavior is used. As version only can have two valid values, I chose not to add a new NFNETLINK_VERSION-constant. Fixes: 59c08c69 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: Support L3 protocol-filter on flush") Reported-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Suggested-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@gmail.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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