Subject: Re: [PATCH] ila: add NETFILTER dependency

From: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:09:31 +0100

Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 03:37:37PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > The recently added generic ILA translation facility fails to
> > build when CONFIG_NETFILTER is disabled:
> > 
> > net/ipv6/ila/ila_xlat.c:229:20: warning: 'struct nf_hook_state' declared inside parameter list
> > net/ipv6/ila/ila_xlat.c:235:27: error: array type has incomplete element type 'struct nf_hook_ops'
> >  static struct nf_hook_ops ila_nf_hook_ops[] __read_mostly = {
> > 
> > This adds an explicit Kconfig dependency to avoid that case.
> 
> I'm afraid this extra Kconfig dependency that Arnd adds to fix this is
> a symptom that there is something that doesn't belong there.
> 
> I overlook this new hook on priority -1, how does this integrate into
> our infrastructure?

Looks problematic since address changes post ipv6 dnat translations,
its certainly unexpected for nft since we have magic address mangling
after -2 and 0 priroized tables...

However ... how is ILA supposed to work?

ila_xlat_outgoing has no callers, so it appears we only do this
stateless nat on ingress...?