From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: allow to turn off xtables compat layer
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:38:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210426153829.GA2350@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210426101440.25335-1-fw@strlen.de>
On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 12:14:40PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> The compat layer needs to parse untrusted input (the ruleset)
> to translate it to a 64bit compatible format.
>
> We had a number of bugs in this department in the past, so allow users
> to turn this feature off.
>
> Add CONFIG_NETFILTER_XTABLES_COMPAT kconfig knob and make it default to y
> to keep existing behaviour.
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-26 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-26 10:14 [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: allow to turn off xtables compat layer Florian Westphal
2021-04-26 10:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2021-04-26 10:57 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-04-26 12:06 ` Florian Westphal
2021-04-26 15:38 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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