On Wednesday 2009-09-02 17:36, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> >> Nice, I'll use par->family. >> >> So in theory I do not even need a check like the following in the beginning? >> >> if (family != NFPROTO_IPV4 >> #ifdef CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6 >> && family != NFPROTO_IPV6 >> #endif >> ) { >> match = false; >> goto out; >> } > >With the AF_UNSPEC registration of your match, it might be used par->family always contains the NFPROTO of the invoking implementation, which can never be UNSPEC (except, in future, xtables2 ;-) par->match->family however may be UNSPEC if the module works that way. Which is why we have par->family. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html