Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I got a large corpus of various crashes in the set internals code > tripping over expressions that should not exist, e.g. a range expression > with a symbolic expression. > > From initial investigation it looks like to root cause is the same, > we have back-to-back declarations of the same set name, evaluation > is returning errors, but we instist to continue evaluation. > > Then, we try to merge set elements and end up merging > such a 'redefined set' with an erroneous one. > > This series adds an initial assertion which helped to make > crashes easier to backtrace. > > Second patch adds a 'errors' flag to struct set and raises > it once we saw soemthing funky. > > Patch 3 also sets/uses this when evaluating the set itself. > > Alternative would be to make the lowlevel code more robust > of these kinds of issues, but that might take a while > to fix, also because this oce is partially not able to > indicate errors. We need to rewrite it, its too picky: nft add rule t c ip protocol . th dport { tcp . 22, udp . 1 } nft add rule t c ip protocol . th dport { tcp / 22, udp . 1 } nft add rule t c ip protocol . th dport { tcp / 22 } In particular, there is a lot of strange code that causes this to be evaluated in very different ways.