Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 10:30:01PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote: > > Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2016-12-05 at 15:28 -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote: > > > > From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > Add support for attaching an eBPF object by file descriptor. > > > > > > > > The iptables binary can be called with a path to an elf object or a > > > > pinned bpf object. Also pass the mode and path to the kernel to be > > > > able to return it later for iptables dump and save. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > --- > > > > > > Assuming there is no simple way to get variable matchsize in iptables, > > > this looks good to me, thanks. > > > > It should be possible by setting kernel .matchsize to ~0 which > > suppresses strict size enforcement. > > > > Its currently only used by ebt_among, but this should work for any xtables > > module. > > This is likely going to trigger a large rewrite of the core userspace > iptables codebase, and likely going to pull part of the mess we have > in ebtables into iptables. So I'd prefer not to follow this path. Fair enough, I have no objections to the patch. -- 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