Hi, using both the latest (git) libnftables and nftables, I got: [root@localhost ~]# nft add rule ip filter input tcp dport 81 reject Segmentation fault (core dumped) (gdb) bt #0 0x00007fb7890c1364 in __strcmp_sse2 () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007fb78960bfa4 in nft_expr_ops_lookup (name=name@entry=0x0) at expr_ops.c:18 #2 0x00007fb78960bc56 in nft_rule_expr_alloc (name=name@entry=0x0) at expr.c:34 #3 0x000000000040db29 in alloc_nft_expr (name=name@entry=0x0) at src/netlink.c:118 #4 0x0000000000410117 in netlink_gen_reject_stmt (ctx=<optimized out>, stmt=<optimized out>) at src/netlink_linearize.c:564 #5 netlink_gen_stmt (stmt=0xb106f0, ctx=0x7fff734c4690) at src/netlink_linearize.c:651 #6 netlink_linearize_rule (ctx=ctx@entry=0x7fff734c4730, nlr=nlr@entry=0xb10520, rule=rule@entry=0xb10760) at src/netlink_linearize.c:670 #7 0x000000000040e25b in netlink_add_rule_batch (ctx=0x7fff734c4730, h=<optimized out>, rule=0xb10760, flags=2048) at src/netlink.c:320 #8 0x00000000004056ec in nft_netlink (msgs=0x7fff734c48b0, state=0x7fff734c48c0) at src/main.c:167 #9 nft_run (scanner=scanner@entry=0xb102c0, state=state@entry=0x7fff734c48c0, msgs=msgs@entry=0x7fff734c48b0) at src/main.c:214 #10 0x00000000004052e5 in main (argc=10, argv=<optimized out>) at src/main.c:321 Looking into the code, netlink_gen_reject_stmt calls alloc_nft_expr(NULL), the NULL propagates to strcmp in nft_expr_ops_lookup. Sorry for not providing a patch, I'm only starting looking into the code and this seems to require at least certain degree of understanding those functions. Jiri -- Jiri Benc -- 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