Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] netfilter: flowtable: Support GRE

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On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 09:51:37PM +0900, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
> Ping, Pablo?

Please go ahead, these #ifdef can go away later on.

> On 2022/02/12 10:54, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
> > On 2022/02/09 19:01, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 11:30:03PM +0900, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
> > > > On 2022/02/08 2:56, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 08:59:39PM +0900, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > > > diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c
> > > > > > index 889cf88..48e2f58 100644
> > > > > > --- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c
> > > > > > +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c
> > > [...]
> > > > > > @@ -202,15 +209,25 @@ static int nf_flow_tuple_ip(struct
> > > > > > sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev,
> > > > > >        if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, thoff + *hdrsize))
> > > > > >            return -1;
> > > > > > +    if (ipproto == IPPROTO_GRE) {
> > > > > 
> > > > > No ifdef here? Maybe remove these ifdef everywhere?
> > > > 
> > > > I wanted to avoid adding many ifdefs and I expect this to be compiled out
> > > > when CONFIG_NF_CT_PROTO_GRE=n as this block is unreachable anyway. It rather
> > > > may have been unintuitive though.
> > > > 
> > > > Removing all of these ifdefs will cause inconsistent behavior between
> > > > CONFIG_NF_CT_PROTO_GRE=n/y.
> > > > When CONFIG_NF_CT_PROTO_GRE=n, conntrack cannot determine GRE version, thus
> > > > it will track GREv1 without key infomation, and the flow will be offloaded.
> > > > When CONFIG_NF_CT_PROTO_GRE=y, GREv1 will have key information and will not
> > > > be offloaded.
> > > > I wanted to just refuse offloading of GRE to avoid this inconsistency.
> > > > Anyway this kind of inconsistency seems to happen in software conntrack, so
> > > > if you'd like to remove ifdefs, I will do.
> > > 
> > > Good point, thanks for explaining. LGTM.
> > 
> > Let me confirm, did you agree to keep ifdefs, or delete them?
> > 
> > Toshiaki Makita



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