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Date:   Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:38:29 +0200
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To:     Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: allow to turn off xtables compat layer
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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.