Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] netfilter: Terminate rule eval if protocol=IPv6 and ipv6 module is disabled

From: Leonardo Bras
Date: Tue Sep 03 2019 - 12:56:31 EST


On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 18:49 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 01:46:50PM -0300, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 22:58 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > Hello Pablo,
> >
> > Any trouble with this patch?
> > I could see the other* one got applied, but not this one.
> > *(The other did not get acked, so i released it alone as v5)
> >
> > Is there any fix I need to do in this one?
>
> Hm, I see, so this one:
>
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1156100/
>
> is not enough?

By what I could understand of Florian e-mail, we would need both:

>> So, given I don't want to plaster ipv6_mod_enabled() everywhere, I
>> would suggest this course of action:
>>
>> 1. add a patch to BREAK in nft_fib_netdev.c for !ipv6_mod_enabled()
>> 2. change net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c, br_nf_pre_routing() to
>> make sure ipv6_mod_enabled() is true before doing the ipv6 stack
>> "emulation".

Is that ok?

>
> I was expecting we could find a way to handle this from br_netfilter
> alone itself.
>
> Thanks.
Thank you!

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