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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 17:27:34 +0200
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/9] socket filtering using nf_tables
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 11:24:32AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:19:11 +0100
>
> > The following patchset provides a socket filtering alternative to BPF
> > which allows you to define your filter using the nf_tables expressions.
>
> Generally I like this series, but of course you will need to respin
> it against the work that went into net-next recently.
Sure, no problem.
> I only wonder about the expression implementation module loading
> logic when we add an nft filter to a socket.
Yes, that needs to be revisited, some people already rised concerns on
that.
> It seems that if the module doesn't exist, we return -EAGAIN, drop the
> mutex, and retry. I see nothing which breaks this loop, it seems like
> it can run forever if a module is simply not present.
Will recheck this as well. Thanks for the feedback.
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