Re: [PATCH 1/1] superfluous skb->nfct check in br_nf_dev_queue_xmit

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On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 06:25:22PM +0400, Vasily Averin wrote:
> >> Therefore I believe that my patch is still correct, however now I think we also need 
> >> to remove #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4) in br_nf_dev_queue_xmit().
> > 
> > I don't think so, DEFRAG_IPV4 is dependency glue, so it shouldn't be
> > possible to build kernel with CONNTRACK_IPV4=n and DEFRAG_IPV4=(m|y).
> 
> Could you please explain, why this #ifdef is required?
> 
> I'm going to remove this #ifdef because it was added together with nfct check.
> 
> Also I believe you are wrong with dependencies:
> NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 forces NF_DEFRAG_IPV4, not vice versa

That's fine. Basically nf_conntrack *always* requires defragmentation.
But defragmentation is also required by tproxy, which doesn't force
you to have nf_conntrack.

> net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig
> config NF_DEFRAG_IPV4
>         tristate
>         default n
> 
> config NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4
>         tristate "IPv4 connection tracking support (required for NAT)"
>         depends on NF_CONNTRACK
>         default m if NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n
>         select NF_DEFRAG_IPV4
> 
> 
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