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Subject: Re: [nftables] testing at sparc
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:23:03PM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I've been testing nftables at sparc, looking for endianess issues.

Great, I meant to do this for a long time.

> Unfortunately, weird things happened.
> 
> Adding some rule:
> 
> % nft add table filter
> % nft add chain filter input
> % nft add rule filter input tcp dport 22 counter
> % nft list table filter
> table ip filter {
>   chain input {
>     payload @th,16,16 0x0 [invalid type] counter packets 0 bytes 0
>   }
> }
> 
> However, matching happened when I generated some traffic.

So it appears we only have a problem in userspace? That's at least partially
good news. Could you provide access to that machine for debugging?

> Also, compiling the nft cli tool:
> 
> % make
> -e   CC src/main.c
> src/main.c: In function 'nft_netlink':
> src/main.c:176:2: warning: cast increases required alignment of target
> type [-Wcast-align]

It appears all of these originate from the list iterator macros.
I guess its container_of() and the cast to (type *)(char *)ptr ...