[nft PATCH] main: Fix for misleading error with negative chain priority

[nft PATCH] main: Fix for misleading error with negative chain priority

[Phil Sutter]

getopt_long() would try to parse the negative priority as an option and
return -1 as it is not known:

| # nft add chain x y { type filter hook input priority -30\; }
| nft: invalid option -- '3'

Fix this by prefixing optstring with a plus character. This instructs
getopt_long() to not collate arguments but just stop after the first
non-option, leaving the rest for manual handling. In fact, this is just
what nft desires: mixing options with nft syntax leads to confusive
command lines anyway.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
---
 src/main.c                                           | 2 +-
 tests/shell/testcases/chains/0039negative_priority_0 | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100755 tests/shell/testcases/chains/0039negative_priority_0

diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index f77d8a820a028..577850e54f68c 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ enum opt_vals {
 	OPT_NUMERIC_TIME	= 't',
 	OPT_INVALID		= '?',
 };
-#define OPTSTRING	"hvcf:iI:jvnsNaeSupypt"
+#define OPTSTRING	"+hvcf:iI:jvnsNaeSupypt"
 
 static const struct option options[] = {
 	{
diff --git a/tests/shell/testcases/chains/0039negative_priority_0 b/tests/shell/testcases/chains/0039negative_priority_0
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..ba17b8cc19eda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/shell/testcases/chains/0039negative_priority_0
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Test parsing of negative priority values
+
+set -e
+
+$NFT add table t
+$NFT add chain t c { type filter hook input priority -30\; }
-- 
2.23.0

Re: [nft PATCH] main: Fix for misleading error with negative chain priority

[Pablo Neira Ayuso]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 06:56:03PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> getopt_long() would try to parse the negative priority as an option and
> return -1 as it is not known:
> 
> | # nft add chain x y { type filter hook input priority -30\; }
> | nft: invalid option -- '3'
> 
> Fix this by prefixing optstring with a plus character. This instructs
> getopt_long() to not collate arguments but just stop after the first
> non-option, leaving the rest for manual handling. In fact, this is just
> what nft desires: mixing options with nft syntax leads to confusive
> command lines anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>

Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>