Netfilter笔记-03

当我们使用nf_register_hook在内核中注册好hook之后,内核是如何来引用的呢?

当设备的硬件接收帧以后,会使用中断事件通知CPU,该帧已经可用了,CPU接收到终端事件之后,会执行do_IRQ函数,IRQ编号会引发正确的处理函数被启用,在该过程中,内核会把帧拷贝到sk_buff数据结构中进行处理。按照IP数据包接收流程

Netfilter笔记-03

内核会调用ip_rcv函数,此函数内会调用NF_HOOK

 return NF_HOOK(NFPROTO_IPV4, NF_INET_PRE_ROUTING, skb, dev, NULL,ip_rcv_finish);

在NF_HOOK函数中会调用到nf_hook_slow函数,在nf_hook_slow函数中调用了nf_iterate,代码如下:

unsigned int nf_iterate(struct list_head *head,
                        struct sk_buff *skb,
                        unsigned int hook,
                        const struct net_device *indev,
                        const struct net_device *outdev,
                        struct nf_hook_ops **elemp,
                        int (*okfn)(struct sk_buff *), 
                        int hook_thresh)
{
        unsigned int verdict;

        /*
         * The caller must not block between calls to this
         * function because of risk of continuing from deleted element.
         */
        list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu((*elemp), head, list) {
                if (hook_thresh > (*elemp)->priority)
                        continue;

                /* Optimization: we don't need to hold module
                   reference here, since function can't sleep. --RR */
repeat:
                verdict = (*elemp)->hook(hook, skb, indev, outdev, okfn); /* 调用hook func */
                if (verdict != NF_ACCEPT) {
#ifdef CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG
                        if (unlikely((verdict & NF_VERDICT_MASK)
                                                        > NF_MAX_VERDICT)) {
                                NFDEBUG("Evil return from %p(%u).\n",
                                        (*elemp)->hook, hook);
                                continue;
                        }   
#endif
                        if (verdict != NF_REPEAT)
                                return verdict;
                        goto repeat;
                }
        }
        return NF_ACCEPT;
}

如上代码中verdict = (*elemp)->hook(hook, skb, indev, outdev, okfn);会调用nf_hook_ops中的hook func。也就是NF_HOOK传过来的ip_rcv_finish。在ip_rcv_finish函数中,内核会对packet进行处理,如果内核不接受此数据包,内核会drop packet,并且free sk_buff。