conntrack.go

/*
Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors.

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package util

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"

	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util/exec"

	"github.com/golang/glog"
)

// Utilities for dealing with conntrack

const noConnectionToDelete = "0 flow entries have been deleted"

// DeleteServiceConnection uses the conntrack tool to delete the conntrack entries
// for the UDP connections specified by the given service IPs
func DeleteServiceConnections(execer exec.Interface, svcIPs []string) {
	for _, ip := range svcIPs {
		glog.V(2).Infof("Deleting connection tracking state for service IP %s", ip)
		err := ExecConntrackTool(execer, "-D", "--orig-dst", ip, "-p", "udp")
		if err != nil && !strings.Contains(err.Error(), noConnectionToDelete) {
			// TODO: Better handling for deletion failure. When failure occur, stale udp connection may not get flushed.
			// These stale udp connection will keep black hole traffic. Making this a best effort operation for now, since it
			// is expensive to baby-sit all udp connections to kubernetes services.
			glog.Errorf("conntrack returned error: %v", err)
		}
	}
}

// ExecConntrackTool executes the conntrack tool using the given parameters
func ExecConntrackTool(execer exec.Interface, parameters ...string) error {
	conntrackPath, err := execer.LookPath("conntrack")
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("error looking for path of conntrack: %v", err)
	}
	output, err := execer.Command(conntrackPath, parameters...).CombinedOutput()
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("conntrack command returned: %q, error message: %s", string(output), err)
	}
	return nil
}