netdev - Re: NAT regression in next tree

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Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:27:33 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NAT regression in next tree

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le vendredi 19 février 2010 à 08:06 +0100, Patrick McHardy a écrit :
>>     netfilter: restore POST_ROUTING hook in NF_HOOK_COND
>>     
>>     Commit 2249065 ("netfilter: get rid of the grossness in netfilter.h")
>>     inverted the logic for conditional hook invocation, breaking the
>>     POST_ROUTING hook invoked by ip_output().
>>     
>>     Correct the logic and remove an unnecessary initialization.
>>     
>>     Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
>>     Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter.h b/include/linux/netfilter.h
>> index 7007945..89341c3 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/netfilter.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/netfilter.h
>> @@ -212,8 +212,9 @@ NF_HOOK_COND(uint8_t pf, unsigned int hook, struct sk_buff *skb,
>>  	     struct net_device *in, struct net_device *out,
>>  	     int (*okfn)(struct sk_buff *), bool cond)
>>  {
>> -	int ret = 1;
>> -	if (cond ||
>> +	int ret;
>> +
>> +	if (!cond ||
>>  	    (ret = nf_hook_thresh(pf, hook, skb, in, out, okfn, INT_MIN) == 1))
>>  		ret = okfn(skb);
>>  	return ret;
> 
> I dont quite get it
> 
> Original code was :
> 
> 
> #define NF_HOOK_COND(pf, hook, skb, indev, outdev, okfn, cond)                \
> ({int __ret;                                                                  \
> if ((cond) || (__ret = nf_hook_thresh(pf, hook, (skb), indev, outdev, okfn, INT_MIN)) == 1)\
>        __ret = (okfn)(skb);                                                   \
> __ret;})
> 
> 
> There was no condition inversion.

Right, I quoted the wrong patch, it was actually broken in
23f3733 ("netfilter: reduce NF_HOOK by one argument"), which
moved the cond check from nf_hook_thresh() to NF_HOOK_COND().
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