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Commit 681f130f authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
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netfilter: xt_socket: add XT_SOCKET_NOWILDCARD flag



xt_socket module can be a nice replacement to conntrack module
in some cases (SYN filtering for example)

But it lacks the ability to match the 3rd packet of TCP
handshake (ACK coming from the client).

Add a XT_SOCKET_NOWILDCARD flag to disable the wildcard mechanism.

The wildcard is the legacy socket match behavior, that ignores
LISTEN sockets bound to INADDR_ANY (or ipv6 equivalent)

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --syn -j SYN_CHAIN
iptables -I INPUT -m socket --nowildcard -j ACCEPT

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
parent 6547a221
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