netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: revert introduction of egress hook

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Date:   Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:02:27 +0100
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: revert introduction of egress hook

Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net> wrote:
> This reverts the following commits:
> 
>   8537f78647c0 ("netfilter: Introduce egress hook")
>   5418d3881e1f ("netfilter: Generalize ingress hook")
>   b030f194aed2 ("netfilter: Rename ingress hook include file")
> 
> From the discussion in [0], the author's main motivation to add a hook
> in fast path is for an out of tree kernel module, which is a red flag
> to begin with.

The author did post patches for nftables, i.e. you can hook up rulesets to
this new hook point.

> is on future extensions w/o concrete code in the tree yet. Revert as
> suggested [1] given the weak justification to add more hooks to critical
> fast-path.

Do you have an alternative suggestion on how to expose this?