From 779668450a990d402d316ffd9b7b103fbe5ab6f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 10:57:12 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack: warn the user if there is a better helper to use After db29a9508a92 ("netfilter: conntrack: disable generic tracking for known protocols"), if the specific helper is built but not loaded (a standard for most distributions) systems with a restrictive firewall but weak configuration regarding netfilter modules to load, will silently stop working. This patch then puts a warning message so the sysadmin knows where to start looking into. It's a pr_warn_once regardless of protocol itself but it should be enough to give a hint on where to look. Cc: Florian Westphal Cc: Daniel Borkmann Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_generic.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_generic.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_generic.c index 60865f110309..2281be419a74 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_generic.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_generic.c @@ -90,7 +90,13 @@ static int generic_packet(struct nf_conn *ct, static bool generic_new(struct nf_conn *ct, const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int dataoff, unsigned int *timeouts) { - return nf_generic_should_process(nf_ct_protonum(ct)); + bool ret; + + ret = nf_generic_should_process(nf_ct_protonum(ct)); + if (!ret) + pr_warn_once("conntrack: generic helper won't handle protocol %d. Please consider loading the specific helper module.\n", + nf_ct_protonum(ct)); + return ret; } #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_CT_NETLINK_TIMEOUT) -- 2.30.2