Re: [TCK][PATCH] nwfilter: convert ctstate to state

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On 08/06/2013 12:01 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 08/06/2013 09:24 AM, Stefan Berger wrote:
iptables version 1.4.16 and later automatically convert -m state --state ...
to -m conntrack --ctstate ... In the test cases we will then only see 'ctstate'
and convert that back to the older 'state' before comparing actual against
expected output.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
+probeIptablesCtstate() {
+  rev=$(iptables --version | \
+        sed -n 's/.*v\([[:digit:]].\)/\1/p' |
+        gawk -F. '{print $1 * 1000000 + $2 * 1000 + $3 }')
+  # 1.4.16 or later uses ctstate
+  if [ $rev -ge 1004016 ]; then
Version number probes are inherently fragile.  Can you do a feature
probe instead, in case someone backports this feature to a build of
iptables that reports an earlier version?

Puzzled ... We had a similar case with the kernel version and the --ctdir ORIGINAL versus REPLY where I had a feature probe first but then ended up probing for the version of the kernel disregarding all these backporting possibilities. So why would we do this in this case?


+ if [ $IPTABLES_USE_CTSTATE -ne 0 ]; then
+          #change ctstate tback o state
+          sed -i "s/ctstate/state/" ${tmpfile}
Do we even need the version/feature probe?  What if we just ALWAYS do
this substitution?  It won't hurt on older iptables (it will just be a
no-op).

You are probably right about that. Currently nwfilter does not create rules with --ctstate and will only do so for newer versions of iptables.

    Stefan

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