netdev - Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: act_xt support new Xtables interface

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Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:45:20 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@...il.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
Cc:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Yury Stankevich <urykhy@...il.com>,
	Hasan Chowdhury <shemonc@...il.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	pablo@...filter.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: act_xt support new Xtables interface

On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 15:35 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> 
> The bigger problem here, if I see __netif_receive_skb right, is that
> when ingress rules run, skb->nfct is still unset, thereby the
> CONNMARK action is a no-op.

Right, ingress is performed before IP/netfilter stack.

This reminds me this might be the reason we have
skb_reset_transport_header(skb);
in __netif_receive_skb(), while its not very logical.

(Yes, sorry for being off topic, but I am referring to 
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg214662.html )



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