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authorYasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki@netfilter.org>2007-07-07 22:14:23 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-07-10 22:16:55 -0700
commit7bfe24611671ec76b44281e582b38535e21f01a9 (patch)
tree72b04c7220842c58b0f0da274eac78896a28d142
parent558585aad0c0ef83d3d14a1c7576b1e404ca1fbc (diff)
[NETFILTER]: ip6_tables: fix explanation of valid upper protocol number
This explains the allowed upper protocol numbers. IP6T_F_NOPROTO was introduced to use 0 as Hop-by-Hop option header, not wildcard. But that seemed to be forgotten. 0 has been used as wildcard since 2002-08-23. Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6_tables.h10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6_tables.h b/include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6_tables.h
index 4686f8342cbd..9a720f05888f 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6_tables.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6_tables.h
@@ -44,8 +44,14 @@ struct ip6t_ip6 {
char iniface[IFNAMSIZ], outiface[IFNAMSIZ];
unsigned char iniface_mask[IFNAMSIZ], outiface_mask[IFNAMSIZ];
- /* ARGH, HopByHop uses 0, so can't do 0 = ANY,
- instead IP6T_F_NOPROTO must be set */
+ /* Upper protocol number
+ * - The allowed value is 0 (any) or protocol number of last parsable
+ * header, which is 50 (ESP), 59 (No Next Header), 135 (MH), or
+ * the non IPv6 extension headers.
+ * - The protocol numbers of IPv6 extension headers except of ESP and
+ * MH do not match any packets.
+ * - You also need to set IP6T_FLAGS_PROTO to "flags" to check protocol.
+ */
u_int16_t proto;
/* TOS to match iff flags & IP6T_F_TOS */
u_int8_t tos;