netfilter: allow logging from non-init namespaces
authorMichal Kubeček <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:30:06 +0000 (10:30 +0100)
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Thu, 2 Feb 2017 13:31:58 +0000 (14:31 +0100)
commit2851940ffee313e0ff12540a8e11a8c54dea9c65
tree0fe2bf02a3125fc7a13800ded0d34812fda92e60
parent90c1aff702d449a1a248c4829d51c0bc677f968e
netfilter: allow logging from non-init namespaces

Commit 69b34fb996b2 ("netfilter: xt_LOG: add net namespace support for
xt_LOG") disabled logging packets using the LOG target from non-init
namespaces. The motivation was to prevent containers from flooding
kernel log of the host. The plan was to keep it that way until syslog
namespace implementation allows containers to log in a safe way.

However, the work on syslog namespace seems to have hit a dead end
somewhere in 2013 and there are users who want to use xt_LOG in all
network namespaces. This patch allows to do so by setting

  /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_log_all_netns

to a nonzero value. This sysctl is only accessible from init_net so that
one cannot switch the behaviour from inside a container.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Documentation/networking/netfilter-sysctl.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
include/net/netfilter/nf_log.h
net/bridge/netfilter/ebt_log.c
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_log_arp.c
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_log_ipv4.c
net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_log_ipv6.c
net/netfilter/nf_log.c