On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 05:37:29AM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> nft_meta_get_eval()'s tendency to bail out setting NFT_BREAK verdict in
> situations where required data is missing breaks inverted checks
> like e.g.:
>
> | meta iifname != eth0 accept
>
> This rule will never match if there is no input interface (or it is not
> known) which is not intuitive and, what's worse, breaks consistency of
> iptables-nft with iptables-legacy.
>
> Fix this by falling back to placing a value in dreg which never matches
> (avoiding accidental matches):
>
> {I,O}IF:
> Use invalid ifindex value zero.
>
> {I,O}IFNAME, {I,O}IFKIND:
> Use an empty string which is neither a valid interface name nor
> kind.
>
> {I,O}IFTYPE:
> Use ARPHRD_VOID (0xFFFF).
>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <[email protected]>
> ---
> net/netfilter/nft_meta.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++-----------------------
Missing update for:
net/bridge/netfilter/nft_meta_bridge.c
