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    netfilter: nftables: add connlabel set support · 1ad8f48d
    Florian Westphal authored
    
    
    Conntrack labels are currently sized depending on the iptables
    ruleset, i.e. if we're asked to test or set bits 1, 2, and 65 then we
    would allocate enough room to store at least bit 65.
    
    However, with nft, the input is just a register with arbitrary runtime
    content.
    
    We therefore ask for the upper ceiling we currently have, which is
    enough room to store 128 bits.
    
    Alternatively, we could alter nf_connlabel_replace to increase
    net->ct.label_words at run time, but since 128 bits is not that
    big we'd only save sizeof(long) so it doesn't seem worth it for now.
    
    This follows a similar approach that xtables 'connlabel'
    match uses, so when user inputs
    
        ct label set bar
    
    then we will set the bit used by the 'bar' label and leave the rest alone.
    
    This is done by passing the sreg content to nf_connlabels_replace
    as both value and mask argument.
    Labels (bits) already set thus cannot be re-set to zero, but
    this is not supported by xtables connlabel match either.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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