Hello, This batch contains updates for your *next* tree. First three changes, from Phil Sutter, allow userspace to define a table that is exclusively owned by a daemon (via netlink socket aliveness) without auto-removing this table when the userspace program exits. Such table gets marked as orphaned and a restarting management daemon may re-attach/reassume ownership. Next patch, from Pablo, passes already-validated flags variable around rather than having called code re-fetch it from netlnik message. Patches 5 and 6 update ipvs and nf_conncount to use the recently introduced KMEM_CACHE() macro. Last three patches, from myself, tweak kconfig logic a little to permit a kernel configuration that can run iptables-over-nftables but not classic (setsockopt) iptables. Such builds lack the builtin-filter/mangle/raw/nat/security tables, the set/getsockopt interface and the "old blob format" interpreter/traverser. For now, this is 'oldconfig friendly', users need to manually deselect existing config options for this. The following changes since commit 723de3ebef03bc14bd72531f00f9094337654009: net: free altname using an RCU callback (2024-01-29 14:40:38 +0000) are available in the Git repository at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next.git tags/nf-next-24-01-29 for you to fetch changes up to 7ad269787b6615ca56bb161063331991fce51abf: netfilter: ebtables: allow xtables-nft only builds (2024-01-29 15:43:21 +0100) ---------------------------------------------------------------- nf-next pr 2024-01-29 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Florian Westphal (3): netfilter: arptables: allow xtables-nft only builds netfilter: xtables: allow xtables-nft only builds netfilter: ebtables: allow xtables-nft only builds Kunwu Chan (2): netfilter: nf_conncount: Use KMEM_CACHE instead of kmem_cache_create() ipvs: Simplify the allocation of ip_vs_conn slab caches Pablo Neira Ayuso (1): netfilter: nf_tables: pass flags to set backend selection routine Phil Sutter (3): netfilter: uapi: Document NFT_TABLE_F_OWNER flag netfilter: nf_tables: Introduce NFT_TABLE_F_PERSIST netfilter: nf_tables: Implement table adoption support include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h | 6 +++++ include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h | 6 ++++- net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig | 7 ++++++ net/bridge/netfilter/Makefile | 2 +- net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig | 43 +++++++++++++++++++------------- net/ipv4/netfilter/Makefile | 2 +- net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig | 20 ++++++++++----- net/ipv6/netfilter/Makefile | 2 +- net/netfilter/Kconfig | 12 ++++----- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c | 4 +-- net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c | 8 ++---- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++-------- 12 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
