Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] netfilter: nf_tables: fib: Drop IPV6 packages if IPv6 is disabled on boot

[Florian Westphal]

Leonardo Bras <leonardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 22:58 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> [...]
> > 1. add a patch to BREAK in nft_fib_netdev.c for !ipv6_mod_enabled()
> [...]
> 
> But this is still needed? I mean, in nft_fib_netdev_eval there are only
> 2 functions being called for IPv6 protocol : nft_fib6_eval and
> nft_fib6_eval_type. Both are already protected by this current patch.
> 
> Is your 1st suggestion about this patch, or you think it's better to
> move this change to nft_fib_netdev_eval ?

Ah, it was the latter.
Making bridge netfilter not pass packets up with ipv6 off closes
the problem for fib_ipv6 and inet, so only _netdev.c needs fixing.