From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: fw@strlen.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next,v2] netfilter: nft_meta: add double-tagged vlan and pppoe support
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:55:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <acF-pua5PjDy_UhO@chamomile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260322225147.469027-1-pablo@netfilter.org>
On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 11:51:47PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Currently:
>
> add rule netdev x y ip saddr 1.1.1.1
>
> does not work with neither double-tagged vlan nor pppoe packets. This is
> because the network and transport header offset are not pointing to the
> IP and transport protocol headers in the stack.
>
> This patch expands NFT_META_PROTOCOL and NFT_META_L4PROTO to parse
> double-tagged vlan and pppoe packets so matching network and transport
> header fields becomes possible with the existing userspace generated
> bytecode. Note that this parser only supports double-tagged vlan which
> is composed of vlan offload + vlan header in the skb payload area for
> simplicity.
>
> NFT_META_PROTOCOL is used by bridge and netdev family as an implicit
> dependency in the bytecode to match on network header fields.
> Similarly, there is also NFT_META_L4PROTO, which is also used as an
> implicit dependency when matching on the transport protocol header
> fields.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> ---
> v2: - Fix typo comment "packer" -> "packet".
> - Add comment to clarify this support double-tagged vlan with
> vlan offload + vlan header in skb data area.
> - remove nft_meta_protocol_store() helper function.
> Note: IPv6 still untested here.
PPPoE with IPv4 and IPv6 is working, but there is an issue with VLAN.
I will post a v3, apologies.
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2026-03-22 22:51 [PATCH nf-next,v2] netfilter: nft_meta: add double-tagged vlan and pppoe support Pablo Neira Ayuso
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