ALG mechanism needs improvements
rmind opened this issue · 0 comments
rmind commented
- Race condition when unloading ALG module:
npf_nat_freealg()
vs lock-free readers. - Inspection as a loop in
npf_alg_conn()
is not particularly efficient. It could be optimized to be: 1) per-protocol 2) only limited to ALGs which perform inspection, rather than all. npf_alg_exec()
should only be performed if the NAT entry has an associated ALG; it is currently applicable only for the dynamic NAT anyway. If there will be ALGs operating with the static NAT, thennpfa_funcs_t::snat
could be added.