From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: [nft PATCH 3/4] xt: Rewrite unsupported compat expression dumping
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 21:10:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5OWHIdRHQwNhZ+v@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y5NmPEyyWFMe6q8P@orbyte.nwl.cc>
On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 05:45:48PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 05:07:18PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 05:56:40PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote:
> > > Choose a format which provides more information and is easily parseable.
> > > Then teach parsers about it and make it explicitly reject the ruleset
> > > giving a meaningful explanation. Also update the man pages with some
> > > more details.
> >
> > There is a bugzilla ticket related to xt and json support, you can
> > probably add a Closes: tag link.
>
> This should be nfbz#1621, but it's about translating xt to native in
> JSON format. All my patch does is extend the xt JSON format a bit. AIUI,
> we would have to extend libxtables to provide translations into JSON.
>
> So even with perfect two-ways translation available, JSON interface is
> unusable if iptables-nft is in use.
The output of nftables without translation cannot be restored either,
this is also going to provide a hint to the user, without allowing it
to restore the JSON file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-09 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-24 16:56 [nft PATCH 0/4] xt: Rewrite unsupported compat expression dumping Phil Sutter
2022-11-24 16:56 ` [nft PATCH 1/4] xt: Delay libxtables access until translation Phil Sutter
2022-12-08 21:21 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2022-12-09 0:14 ` Phil Sutter
2022-12-09 16:06 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2022-11-24 16:56 ` [nft PATCH 2/4] xt: Purify enum nft_xt_type Phil Sutter
2022-11-24 16:56 ` [nft PATCH 3/4] xt: Rewrite unsupported compat expression dumping Phil Sutter
2022-11-24 17:04 ` Florian Westphal
2022-11-24 17:22 ` Phil Sutter
2022-11-24 17:35 ` Florian Westphal
2022-12-09 16:07 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2022-12-09 16:45 ` Phil Sutter
2022-12-09 20:10 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2022-11-24 16:56 ` [nft PATCH 4/4] xt: Fall back to generic printing from translation Phil Sutter
2022-12-13 14:03 ` [nft PATCH 0/4] xt: Rewrite unsupported compat expression dumping Phil Sutter
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