Pablo Neira Ayuso <pa...@netfilter.org> writes: > Hi Eric, > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:07:30PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> While looking into what it would take to route packets out to network >> devices in other network namespaces I started looking at the netfilter >> hooks, and there is a lot of nasty code to figure out which network >> namespace to filter the packets in. >> >> Just passing the network namespace into the netfilter hooks looks like a >> significant simplication in the code, and worth it as the first thing >> most netfilter hooks do is compute the network namespace. >> >> We probably even want per network namespace netfilter hooks as nftables >> tries (and fails to use). nftables currently has a fairly serious bug >> where the tables for one network namespace run for packets in all >> network namespaces. I do not have a fix yet but I think this patchset >> making it easy to get at the network namespace is a good starting >> place for a fix. > > I have a patchset that is almost ready to convert netfilter to pernet > hooks, it partially clashes with this. Will send it out today and will > Cc you so you can review it. > > I think it should take me little time to rebase it on top of yours. > It's rather large changeset, which quite a lot of boiler plate code > though.
Hmm. I will wait and take a look. I think going from where I am to pernet netfilter hooks is about one simple patch, so I don't know where the large about of boiler plate comes from. I think I will code that up so I can verify that and we can compare notes later today. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
