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netfilter: ipt_CLUSTERIP: deprecate it in favour of xt_cluster

xt_cluster supersedes ipt_CLUSTERIP since it can be also used in
gateway configurations (not only from the backend side).

ipt_CLUSTER is also known to leak the netdev that it uses on
device removal, which requires a rather large fix to workaround
the problem: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/358629/

So let's deprecate this so we can probably kill code this in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Pablo Neira Ayuso 10 years ago
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2 changed files with 8 additions and 0 deletions
  1. 1 0
      include/net/netns/x_tables.h
  2. 7 0
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c

+ 1 - 0
include/net/netns/x_tables.h

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ struct ebt_table;
 struct netns_xt {
 	struct list_head tables[NFPROTO_NUMPROTO];
 	bool notrack_deprecated_warning;
+	bool clusterip_deprecated_warning;
 #if defined(CONFIG_BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES) || \
     defined(CONFIG_BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES_MODULE)
 	struct ebt_table *broute_table;

+ 7 - 0
net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c

@@ -418,6 +418,13 @@ static int clusterip_tg_check(const struct xt_tgchk_param *par)
 	if (ret < 0)
 		pr_info("cannot load conntrack support for proto=%u\n",
 			par->family);
+
+	if (!par->net->xt.clusterip_deprecated_warning) {
+		pr_info("ipt_CLUSTERIP is deprecated and it will removed soon, "
+			"use xt_cluster instead\n");
+		par->net->xt.clusterip_deprecated_warning = true;
+	}
+
 	return ret;
 }