Re: [PATCH] [net-next] netfilter: bridge: make NF_TABLES_BRIDGE tristate

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:08:20AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The new nft_meta_bridge code fails to link as built-in when NF_TABLES
> is a loadable module.
> 
> net/bridge/netfilter/nft_meta_bridge.o: In function `nft_meta_bridge_get_eval':
> nft_meta_bridge.c:(.text+0x1e8): undefined reference to `nft_meta_get_eval'
> net/bridge/netfilter/nft_meta_bridge.o: In function `nft_meta_bridge_get_init':
> nft_meta_bridge.c:(.text+0x468): undefined reference to `nft_meta_get_init'
> nft_meta_bridge.c:(.text+0x49c): undefined reference to `nft_parse_register'
> nft_meta_bridge.c:(.text+0x4cc): undefined reference to `nft_validate_register_store'
> net/bridge/netfilter/nft_meta_bridge.o: In function `nft_meta_bridge_module_exit':
> nft_meta_bridge.c:(.exit.text+0x14): undefined reference to `nft_unregister_expr'
> net/bridge/netfilter/nft_meta_bridge.o: In function `nft_meta_bridge_module_init':
> nft_meta_bridge.c:(.init.text+0x14): undefined reference to `nft_register_expr'
> net/bridge/netfilter/nft_meta_bridge.o:(.rodata+0x60): undefined reference to `nft_meta_get_dump'
> net/bridge/netfilter/nft_meta_bridge.o:(.rodata+0x88): undefined reference to `nft_meta_set_eval'
> 
> This can happen because the NF_TABLES_BRIDGE dependency itself is just a
> 'bool'.  Make the symbol a 'tristate' instead so Kconfig can propagate the
> dependencies correctly.

Hm. Something breaks here. Investigating. Looks like bridge support is
gone after this, nft fails to register the filter chain type:

# nft add table bridge x
# nft add chain bridge x y { type filter hook input priority 0\; }
Error: Could not process rule: No such file or directory