From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, fw@strlen.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH nft] src: add interface wildcard matching
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:33:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151018183313.GA4386@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445191336-2041-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org>
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> Contrary to iptables, we use '*' as wildcard as in udev since the '+' can be
> used as a valid interface name.
'*' can also be part of an interface name, seems only '/', ':', and ' '
(space) are disallowed.
> # nft --debug=netlink add rule test test iifname eth\*
> ip test test
> [ meta load iifname => reg 1 ]
> [ bitwise reg 1 = (reg=1 & 0x00ffffff 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 ) ^ 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 ]
> [ cmp eq reg 1 0x2a687465 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 ]
Why do we need a bitwise op for this?
Instead we could just ask for cmp of 3 bytes ('eth' instead of 4 'eth\0')?
You might recall ancient RFC patch for this:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/283639/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-18 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-18 18:02 [PATCH nft] src: add interface wildcard matching Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-10-18 18:33 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2015-10-18 19:04 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-10-18 19:43 ` Florian Westphal
2015-10-18 20:39 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-10-18 20:14 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-10-18 20:18 ` Florian Westphal
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