On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 02:43:54PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 13.03.2015 um 13:15 schrieb Pablo Neira Ayuso: > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:31:16PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > >> The printed values are all of type unsigned integer, therefore use > >> %u instead of %d. Otherwise an user can face negative values. > >> > >> Fixes: > >> $ cat /proc/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue > >> 0 29508 278 2 65531 0 2004213241 -2129885586 1 > >> 1 -27747 0 2 65531 0 0 0 1 > >> 2 -27748 0 2 65531 0 0 0 1 > > > > I guess you want to access stats on dropped packets. > > Correct. :) > > > I prefer if you extend nfnetlink_queue to provide statistics through > > nfnetlink_queue, so you don't have to manually parse this text-based > > /proc entry and we can deprecate this interface. That shouldn't have > > been there in first place. > > You mean statistics via netlink attributes? I can add that! Add a new NFQNL_CFG_CMD_STATS command to request the statistics. If NLM_F_DUMP is set, then we'll basically provide the full list of instances. Otherwise, in case you want to retrieve stats for a specific netlink socket, you can use the netlink portID as index. And you'll have to add attributes for this new command, yes. > But I think we should also fix the format string of the proc file > as the fix is easy and non-intrusive. Unfortunately we don't know how many people are relying on that output, I prefer to remain conservative and provide a proper netlink interface for this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
