Re: linux-next: Tree for March 27 (netfilter build error)

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso
Date: Sun Mar 29 2009 - 08:00:25 EST


David Miller wrote:
> From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:47:04 +0400
>
>> [Randy Dunlap - Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:26:42PM -0700]
>> ...
>> | works_for_me. Thanks.
>> | but missing S-O-B.
>> |
>> | Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ...
>>
>> Thanks for testing Randy. So if nobody will complain
>> here is a solid version of the patch. Though I would like
>> if Pablo or Patrick confirm its correctness. Thanks!
>
> I'll apply this once Patrick or Pablo have a look at it.

I think that the patch attached is better since it removes the overhead
of the IPv6 dependency, which is indeed too much for the use of one
function. Thanks.

--
"Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers
netfilter: xtables: fix IPv6 dependency in the cluster match

This patch fixes a dependency with IPv6:

ERROR: "__ipv6_addr_type" [net/netfilter/xt_cluster.ko] undefined!

This patch adds a function that checks if the higher bits of the
address is 0xFF to identify a multicast address, instead of adding a
dependency due to __ipv6_addr_type(). I came up with this idea after
Patrick McHardy pointed possible problems with runtime module
dependencies.

Reported-by: Steven Noonan <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

net/netfilter/xt_cluster.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_cluster.c b/net/netfilter/xt_cluster.c
index ad5bd89..f2d2482 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_cluster.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_cluster.c
@@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ xt_cluster_hash(const struct nf_conn *ct,
}

static inline bool
+xt_cluster_ipv6_is_multicast(const struct in6_addr *addr)
+{
+ __be32 st = addr->s6_addr32[0];
+ return ((st & htonl(0xFF000000)) == htonl(0xFF000000));
+}
+
+static inline bool
xt_cluster_is_multicast_addr(const struct sk_buff *skb, u_int8_t family)
{
bool is_multicast = false;
@@ -67,8 +74,8 @@ xt_cluster_is_multicast_addr(const struct sk_buff *skb, u_int8_t family)
is_multicast = ipv4_is_multicast(ip_hdr(skb)->daddr);
break;
case NFPROTO_IPV6:
- is_multicast = ipv6_addr_type(&ipv6_hdr(skb)->daddr) &
- IPV6_ADDR_MULTICAST;
+ is_multicast =
+ xt_cluster_ipv6_is_multicast(&ipv6_hdr(skb)->daddr);
break;
default:
WARN_ON(1);