Follow packets in rules

[Patrick McHardy]

Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> Attached you can find the reworked TRACE target, which does not suffer
> from backward incompatibility. Unfortunately I had to steal one unused
> bit from skbuff to be able to mark the packets so that it surely does
> not clash with any rules using the standard "MARK" target. Logging
> level, flags and type are hardcoded. What do you think?

Could you send me a Signed-off-by: line so I can queue this for 2.6.23?

> +static inline void trace_packet(struct sk_buff *skb,
> +				unsigned int hook,
> +				const struct net_device *in,
> +				const struct net_device *out,
> +				char *tablename,
> +				struct xt_table_info *private,
> +				struct ipt_entry *e)


I'm going to remove the inline here ..

>  /* Returns one of the generic firewall policies, like NF_ACCEPT. */
>  unsigned int
>  ipt_do_table(struct sk_buff **pskb,
> @@ -267,6 +371,12 @@
>  
>  			t = ipt_get_target(e);
>  			IP_NF_ASSERT(t->u.kernel.target);
> +			
> +			/* The packet is traced: log it */
> +			if ((*pskb)->nf_trace)
> +				trace_packet(*pskb, hook, in, out,
> +					     table->name, private, e);
> +

and mark this unlikely so we don't bloat the main loop of ipt_do_table.