- Switch to the C11-style atomic primitives using atomic_loadstore(9).
- npfkern: introduce the 'state.key.interface' and 'state.key.direction'
settings. Users can now choose whether the connection state should be
strictly per-interface or global at the configuration level. Keep NAT
logic to be always per-interface, though.
- npfkern: rewrite the G/C worker logic and make it self-tuning.
- npfkern and libnpf: multiple bug fixes; add param exporting; introduce
more parameters. Remove npf_nvlist_{copyin,copyout}() functions and
refactor npfctl_load_nvlist() with others; add npfctl_run_op() to have
a single entry point for operations. Introduce npf_flow_t and clean up
some code.
- npfctl: lots of fixes for the 'npfctl show' logic; make 'npfctl list'
more informative; misc usability improvements and more user-friendly
error messages.
- Amend and improve the manual pages.
- npf_conndb_lookup: protect the connection lookup with pserialize(9),
instead of incorrectly assuming that the handler always runs at IPL_SOFNET.
Should fix crashes reported on high load (PR/55182).
- npf_config_destroy: handle partially initialized config; fixes crashes
with some invalid configurations.
- NAT policy creation / destruction: set the initial reference and do not
wait for reference draining on destruction; destroy the policy on the
last reference drop instead. Fixes a lockup with the dynamic NAT rules.
- npf_nat_{export,import}: fix a regression since dynamic NAT rules.
- npfctl: fix a regression and restore the default group behaviour.
- Add npf_cache_tcp() and validate the TCP data offset (from maxv@).
- Add support for dynamic NETMAP algorithm (stateful net-to-net).
- Add most of the support for the dynamic NAT rules; a little bit more
userland work is needed to finish this up and enable.
- Replace 'stateful-ends' with more permissive 'stateful-all'.
- Add various tunable parameters and document them, see npf-params(7).
- Reduce the memory usage of the connection state table (conndb).
- Portmap rewrite: use memory more efficiently, handle addresses dynamically.
- Bug fix: add splsoftnet()/splx() around the thmap writers and comment.
- npftest: clean up and simplify; fix some memleaks to make ASAN happy.
The documented default "flags S/SAFR" for stateful rules that affect
TCP packets but don't specify any flags, doesn't actually get applied
to a rule like "pass stateful out all". The big problem with this is
that when you then do a "block return-rst" for an incoming packet, the
generated RST packet will create state for the connection attempt it's
blocking, so that a second attempt from the same source will pass.
This change makes the default flags actually apply to such simple
rules. It also fixes a related bug in the code generation for the
flag matching, where part of the action could erroneously be omitted.
Reviewed by <rmind>
Closes PR bin/54124
Pullup to NetBSD 8
- Convert NPF connection table to thmap. State lookup is now lock-free.
- Improve connection state G/C: it is now incremental and tunable.
- Add support for dynamic NAT address. Translation addresses can now be
selected from a pool of addresses. There are two selection algorithms,
"ip-hash" and "round-robin" (see the man page).
- Translation address can be specified as e.g. ifaddrs(wm0) in npf.conf
to dynamically choose an IP from the interface address(es).
- Add support for the NETMAP algorithm with static NAT for net-to-net
translation (it is equivalent to iptables NETMAP logic).
- Convert 'ipset' tables to use thmap; the table lookup is now lock-free.
- Misc improvements, bug fixes and more unit tests.
- Bump NPF_VERSION (will also bump libnpf).
rillig