On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 06:41:13PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote: > On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 6:21 PM Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 11:39:41PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 03:56:41PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote: > > [...] > > > > If it is a bug, please submit a fix for this as soon as possible Pablo. > > > > > > Thanks for your support, but I can take over, too. The number of > > > notifications emitted even for a small ruleset is not ideal, also. It's > > > just a bit sad that I ACKed the patch already and so it went out the > > > door. Florian, can we still put a veto there? > > > > Phil, kernel was crashing after your patch, this was resulting in a > > kernel panic when running tests here. I had to revert your patches > > locally to keep running tests. > > > > Please, just send an incremental fix to adjust the idx, revert will > > leave things in worse state. > > If we can get a fix out soon then I'm fine with that, if we can't get > a fix out soon then a revert may be wise. I believe it should be possible to fix this in the next -rc, which should be quick. If Phil is busy I will jump on this and I will keep you on Cc so you and Richard can review. I apologize for forgetting to Cc you in first place. > > Audit does not show chains either, which is not very useful to locate > > what where exactly the rules have been reset, but that can probably > > discussed in net-next. Richard provided a way to extend this if audit > > maintainer find it useful too. > > Richard was correct in saying that new fields must be added to the end > of the record. The only correction I would make to Richard's comments > is that we tend to prefer that if a field is present in a record, it > is always present in a record; if there is no useful information to > log in that field, a "?" can be substituted for the value (e.g. > "nftfield=?"). Thanks for clarification, hopefully this will help to explore extensions to include chain information in the logs. I think that might help users to understand better the kind of updated that happened in the Netfilter subsystem.
