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authorTomasz Bursztyka <tomasz.bursztyka@linux.intel.com>2013-12-12 15:00:42 +0200
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2013-12-17 14:28:05 +0100
commitd8bcc768c80e73cf4e948cb327949174b4b5b9e7 (patch)
tree18be32c57d81b76d31933c7cd60142ebdb21c0c2
parent0aff078d58e1c69139189e45ba5e929c030e8056 (diff)
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netfilter: nf_tables: Expose the table usage counter via netlink
Userspace can therefore know whether a table is in use or not, and by how many chains. Suggested by Pablo Neira Ayuso. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Bursztyka <tomasz.bursztyka@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h2
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h
index 256d36b1b94a..b25481e16f0a 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h
@@ -110,11 +110,13 @@ enum nft_table_flags {
*
* @NFTA_TABLE_NAME: name of the table (NLA_STRING)
* @NFTA_TABLE_FLAGS: bitmask of enum nft_table_flags (NLA_U32)
+ * @NFTA_TABLE_USE: number of chains in this table (NLA_U32)
*/
enum nft_table_attributes {
NFTA_TABLE_UNSPEC,
NFTA_TABLE_NAME,
NFTA_TABLE_FLAGS,
+ NFTA_TABLE_USE,
__NFTA_TABLE_MAX
};
#define NFTA_TABLE_MAX (__NFTA_TABLE_MAX - 1)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index dcddc49c0e08..604512d523f7 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ static int nf_tables_fill_table_info(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, u32 seq,
nfmsg->res_id = 0;
if (nla_put_string(skb, NFTA_TABLE_NAME, table->name) ||
- nla_put_be32(skb, NFTA_TABLE_FLAGS, htonl(table->flags)))
+ nla_put_be32(skb, NFTA_TABLE_FLAGS, htonl(table->flags)) ||
+ nla_put_be32(skb, NFTA_TABLE_USE, htonl(table->use)))
goto nla_put_failure;
return nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);