From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: add deprecation warning for dccp support
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:05:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260312180606.5751-1-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
Add a deprecation warning for the xt_dccp match and the
nft exthdr code.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c | 4 ++++
net/netfilter/xt_dccp.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c b/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c
index 5f01269a49bd..1602e4266f34 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c
@@ -796,6 +796,10 @@ nft_exthdr_select_ops(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
break;
#ifdef CONFIG_NFT_EXTHDR_DCCP
case NFT_EXTHDR_OP_DCCP:
+ pr_warn_once("The dccp option matching is deprecated and scheduled to be removed in 2027, "
+ "please contact the netfilter-devel mailing list or update your "
+ "nftables rules\n");
+
if (tb[NFTA_EXTHDR_DREG])
return &nft_exthdr_dccp_ops;
break;
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_dccp.c b/net/netfilter/xt_dccp.c
index e5a13ecbe67a..9b8720c57d8d 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_dccp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_dccp.c
@@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ static int __init dccp_mt_init(void)
{
int ret;
+ pr_warn_once("The DCCP match is deprecated and scheduled to be removed in 2027, "
+ "please contact the netfilter-devel mailing list or update your "
+ "iptables rules\n");
+
/* doff is 8 bits, so the maximum option size is (4*256). Don't put
* this in BSS since DaveM is worried about locked TLB's for kernel
* BSS. */
--
2.52.0
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