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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Yasuyuki KOZAKAI <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6]: ip6t_{hbh,dst}: Rejects not-strict mode on rule insersion
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:54:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C61D88.6050703@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809080613.m886DnGY021233@toshiba.co.jp>

Yasuyuki KOZAKAI wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> Please apply the following patch. The option IP6T_OPTS_NSTRICT causes to
> ignore rules for options in HBH/DST header.
> 
> I think this issue affects few users. Because fortunately (?) man page and
> 'ip6tables -m hbh --help' does not show --hbh-not-strict option, and
> 'ip6tables ... --hbh-not-strict' does not work due to incorrect has_arg
> value in userland libip6t_hbh.c ;)
> 
> I will implement not-strict mode, so the patch leaves the definition of
> IP6T_OPTS_NSTRICT. The strict mode is too strict (the specified options
> have to be included in order in HBH/DST header) and would be useless
> in most senarios.

Since my knowledge of this quite limited - is this fix important
enough so it should go in 2.6.27, or is queuing it for 2.6.28 OK
too?



  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-09  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-08  6:13 [PATCH 2.6]: ip6t_{hbh,dst}: Rejects not-strict mode on rule insersion Yasuyuki KOZAKAI
2008-09-09  6:54 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-09-09 10:19   ` Yasuyuki KOZAKAI
     [not found]   ` <200809091019.m89AJniP013456@toshiba.co.jp>
2008-09-24 15:29     ` Patrick McHardy

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