From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: nf_tables: fib: Drop IPV6 packages if IPv6 is disabled on boot
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 11:58:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190821095844.me6kscvnfruinseu@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <793ce2e9b6200a033d44716749acc837aaf5e4e7.camel@linux.ibm.com>
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 01:15:58PM -0300, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 07:36 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > Wouldn't fib_netdev.c have the same problem?
> Probably, but I haven't hit this issue yet.
>
> > If so, might be better to place this test in both
> > nft_fib6_eval_type and nft_fib6_eval.
>
> I think that is possible, and not very hard to do.
>
> But in my humble viewpoint, it looks like it's nft_fib_inet_eval() and
> nft_fib_netdev_eval() have the responsibility to choose a valid
> protocol or drop the package.
> I am not sure if it would be a good move to transfer this
> responsibility to nft_fib6_eval_type() and nft_fib6_eval(), so I would
> rather add the same test to nft_fib_netdev_eval().
>
> Does it make sense?
Please, update common code to netdev and ip6 extensions as Florian
suggests.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-21 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-20 0:58 [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: nf_tables: fib: Drop IPV6 packages if IPv6 is disabled on boot Leonardo Bras
2019-08-20 5:36 ` Florian Westphal
2019-08-20 16:15 ` Leonardo Bras
2019-08-21 9:58 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2019-08-21 14:14 ` Leonardo Bras
2019-08-26 16:47 ` Leonardo Bras
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