Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
---------------------------
+
+What: Bridge netfilter deferred IPv4/IPv6 output hook calling
+When: January 2007
+Why: The deferred output hooks are a layering violation causing unusual
+ and broken behaviour on bridge devices. Examples of things they
+ break include QoS classifation using the MARK or CLASSIFY targets,
+ the IPsec policy match and connection tracking with VLANs on a
+ bridge. Their only use is to enable bridge output port filtering
+ within iptables with the physdev match, which can also be done by
+ combining iptables and ebtables using netfilter marks. Until it
+ will get removed the hook deferral is disabled by default and is
+ only enabled when needed.
+
+Who: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
+
+---------------------------
__u32 ipv4;
} daddr;
};
+
+extern int brnf_deferred_hooks;
#endif /* CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER */
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#define brnf_filter_vlan_tagged 1
#endif
+int brnf_deferred_hooks;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(brnf_deferred_hooks);
+
static __be16 inline vlan_proto(const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
return vlan_eth_hdr(skb)->h_vlan_encapsulated_proto;
return NF_ACCEPT;
else if (ip->version == 6 && !brnf_call_ip6tables)
return NF_ACCEPT;
+ else if (!brnf_deferred_hooks)
+ return NF_ACCEPT;
#endif
if (hook == NF_IP_POST_ROUTING)
return NF_ACCEPT;
if (!(info->bitmask & XT_PHYSDEV_OP_MASK) ||
info->bitmask & ~XT_PHYSDEV_OP_MASK)
return 0;
+ if (brnf_deferred_hooks == 0 &&
+ info->bitmask & XT_PHYSDEV_OP_OUT &&
+ (!(info->bitmask & XT_PHYSDEV_OP_BRIDGED) ||
+ info->invert & XT_PHYSDEV_OP_BRIDGED) &&
+ hook_mask & ((1 << NF_IP_LOCAL_OUT) | (1 << NF_IP_FORWARD) |
+ (1 << NF_IP_POST_ROUTING))) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "physdev match: using --physdev-out in the "
+ "OUTPUT, FORWARD and POSTROUTING chains for non-bridged "
+ "traffic is deprecated and breaks other things, it will "
+ "be removed in January 2007. See Documentation/"
+ "feature-removal-schedule.txt for details. This doesn't "
+ "affect you in case you're using it for purely bridged "
+ "traffic.\n");
+ brnf_deferred_hooks = 1;
+ }
return 1;
}