On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 04:01:33PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote: > src/nft add rule filter output meta oifname eth0 > > doesn't work on x86. Problem is that nft declares these as > BYTEORDER_INVALID, but when converting the string mpz_import_data > treats INVALID like BIG_ENDIAN. > > [ cmp eq reg 1 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x65000000 0x00306874 ] > > as kernel nft_cmp_eval basically boils down to > > memcmp(reg, skb->dev->name, sizeof(reg) comparision fails. > > with patch: > [ cmp eq reg 1 0x30687465 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 ] Applied with small change: Error: Byteorder mismatch: expected invalid, got host endian add rule filter output ct helper "ftp" counter ^^^^^ I was hitting that error here. I have mangled your patch to change endianess of the helper name, I couldn't find any other string type in the current tree that needs to be adjusted. > Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > On a related note: > Instead of > memcmp(register, devicename, strlen(register)+1) [i.e., strcmp] > The comparision in kernel is always > memcmp(register, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ). > > IOW, why does expr_evaluate_value() replace the interface names > string length with the template length (IFNAMSIZ)? I see, it's adjusting the expression to use the type length. I cannot currently find a reason any reason for not changing that. > It doesn't seem to be needed, and without it supporting > iptables-style wildcard name match (oifname "eth+") should be quite simple. We support this in iptables-nftables, to interpret the data from the kernel the assumption is that if_nametoindex fails to resolve the interface name, then it handles the interface name as an interface wildcard. But that's a problem, if the interface is removed, all existing rules for it will be interpreted as wildcard. Regards. -- 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