netdev - Re: [PATCH rfc] netfilter: two xtables matches

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Date:	Fri, 7 Dec 2012 12:26:34 -0500
From:	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
To:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>,
	netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rfc] netfilter: two xtables matches

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:12:10PM -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:00:36PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> >> On Wednesday 2012-12-05 20:28, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Somehow, the first part of this email went missing. Not critical,
>> >> >but for completeness:
>> >> >
>> >> >These two patches each add an xtables match.
>> >> >
>> >> >The xt_priority match is a straighforward addition in the style of
>> >> >xt_mark, adding the option to filter on one more sk_buff field. I
>> >> >have an immediate application for this. The amount of code (in
>> >> >kernel + userspace) to add a single check proved quite large.
>> >>
>> >> Hm so yeah, can't we just place this in xt_mark.c?
>> >
>> > I don't feel this belongs to xt_mark at all.
>>
>> Do you have other concerns, or can I resubmit as is for merging in a
>> few days if no one raises additional issues?
>
> In nftables we have the 'meta' extension that allows to match all
> skbuff fields (among other things):
>
> http://1984.lsi.us.es/git/nf-next/tree/net/netfilter/nft_meta.c?h=nf_tables8
>
> I think it's the way to go so we stop adding small matches for each
> skbuff field.
>
> I don't mind the name if it's xt_skbuff or xt_meta.

Okay. I'll respin right now with one more field to select the skb field to
match on, as a patch against tree nf-next, and will send that to
netfilter-devel.
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