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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@163.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next 1/2] netfilter: nft_ct: unnecessary to require dir when use ct l3proto/protocol
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 13:32:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160925113230.GB8331@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474554532-50664-1-git-send-email-zlpnobody@163.com>

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:28:51PM +0800, Liping Zhang wrote:
> From: Liping Zhang <liping.zhang@spreadtrum.com>
> 
> Currently, if the user want to match ct l3proto, we must specify the
> direction, for example:
>   # nft add rule filter input ct original l3proto ipv4
>                                  ^^^^^^^^
> Otherwise, error message will be reported:
>   # nft add rule filter input ct l3proto ipv4
>   nft add rule filter input ct l3proto ipv4
>   <cmdline>:1:1-38: Error: Could not process rule: Invalid argument
>   add rule filter input ct l3proto ipv4
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Actually, there's no need to require NFTA_CT_DIRECTION attr, because
> ct l3proto and protocol are unrelated to direction.
> 
> And for compatibility, even if the user specify the NFTA_CT_DIRECTION
> attr, do not report error, just skip it.

Applied, thanks.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-25 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-22 14:28 [PATCH nf-next 1/2] netfilter: nft_ct: unnecessary to require dir when use ct l3proto/protocol Liping Zhang
2016-09-22 14:28 ` [PATCH nf-next 2/2] netfilter: nft_ct: report error if mark and dir specified simultaneously Liping Zhang
2016-09-25 11:32   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-09-25 11:32 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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