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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Fix br_nf_pre_routing() in conjunction with bridge-nf-call-ip(6)tables=0
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:29:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F03650D.8050200@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F0361D7.3000602@pandora.be>

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Am 03.01.2012 21:15, schrieb Bart De Schuymer:
> The documentation is probably not explicit enough, but I would keep the
> behavior as it is now. Setting bridge-nf-call-iptables to 0 makes
> iptables behave as if bridge-netfilter was not enabled at compilation.
> Anyway, your patch is almost certainly flawed since the fact that
> skb->nf_bridge can be NULL is used as part of the logic in
> br_netfilter.c: it indicates that bridge-nf-call-iptables was 0 when the
> packet was first processed by bridge-netfilter and should therefore not
> be given to iptables in any other netfilter hook.

Thanks for the explanation!

Wouldn't it make sense to check for bridge-nf-call-iptables in xt_physdev?
So that the user gets warned that his iptables rule will never match...

Thanks,
//richard



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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-03 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-03  1:29 xt_physdev has no effect if net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables=0 Richard Weinberger
2012-01-03 13:26 ` Richard Weinberger
2012-01-03 13:26   ` [PATCH] netfilter: Fix br_nf_pre_routing() in conjunction with bridge-nf-call-ip(6)tables=0 Richard Weinberger
2012-01-03 16:15     ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-01-03 17:42       ` Richard Weinberger
2012-01-03 20:15         ` Bart De Schuymer
2012-01-03 20:29           ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2012-01-04 17:55             ` Bart De Schuymer
2012-01-04 23:13               ` Richard Weinberger
2012-01-05 19:50                 ` Bart De Schuymer
2012-01-05 19:54                   ` Richard Weinberger

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