netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] netfilter: nf_tables: fib: Drop IPV6 packages if IPv6 is disabled on boot

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Date:   Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:58:19 +0200
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] netfilter: nf_tables: fib: Drop IPV6 packages if
 IPv6 is disabled on boot

Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 22:58 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> [...]
> > 1. add a patch to BREAK in nft_fib_netdev.c for !ipv6_mod_enabled()
> [...]
> 
> But this is still needed? I mean, in nft_fib_netdev_eval there are only
> 2 functions being called for IPv6 protocol : nft_fib6_eval and
> nft_fib6_eval_type. Both are already protected by this current patch.
> 
> Is your 1st suggestion about this patch, or you think it's better to
> move this change to nft_fib_netdev_eval ?

Ah, it was the latter.
Making bridge netfilter not pass packets up with ipv6 off closes
the problem for fib_ipv6 and inet, so only _netdev.c needs fixing.