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This patch extends the set infrastructure to add a special catch-all set element. If the lookup fails to find an element (or range) in the set, then the catch-all element is selected. Users can specify a mapping, expression(s) and timeout to be attached to the catch-all element. This patch adds a catchall list to the set, this list might contain more than one single catch-all element (e.g. in case that the catch-all element is removed and a new one is added in the same transaction). However, most of the time, there will be either one element or no elements at all in this list. The catch-all element is identified via NFT_SET_ELEM_CATCHALL flag and such special element has no NFTA_SET_ELEM_KEY attribute. There is a new nft_set_elem_catchall object that stores a reference to the dummy catch-all element (catchall->elem) whose layout is the same of the set element type to reuse the existing set element codebase. The set size does not apply to the catch-all element, users can define a catch-all element even if the set is full. The check for valid set element flags hava been updates to report EOPNOTSUPP in case userspace requests flags that are not supported when using new userspace nftables and old kernel. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.