Re: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: add IPComp extension match support

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On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 05:56:09PM +0800, Fan Du wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2013年12月06日 02:34, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:53:24AM +0800, Fan Du wrote:
> >>With this plugin, user could specify IPComp tagged with certain
> >>CPI that host not interested will be DROPped or any other action.
> >>
> >>For example:
> >>iptables -A INPUT -p 108 -m ipcomp --ipcompspi 0x87 -j DROP
> >>
> >>Then input IPComp packet with CPI equates 0x87 will not reach
> >>upper layer anymore.
> >
> >I think that, with a little bit more work, you can add support for
> >IPv6 as well. From RFC 3173:
> >
> >"In the IPv6 context, IPComp is viewed as an end-to-end payload, and
> >MUST NOT apply to hop-by-hop, routing, and fragmentation extension
> >headers.
> >
> >You can perform that IPv6-specific handling to skip these extension
> >headers and reach the IPComp header by means of the ipv6_find_hdr()
> >helper function.

I just noted that you always have to use -p 108 to get this match
working, in that case the ip6_tables already sets par->thoff that you
can use to reach the transport header, so you can skip calling
ipv6_find_hdr(). So adding IPv6 support is even easier to make.
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