This option makes IP_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY user selectable, giving users the option to configure iptables without enabling any other config.

Suggested-by: Florian Westphal fw@strlen.de Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org --- net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig | 19 +++++++++++-------- tools/testing/selftests/net/config | 1 + 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig index 1b991b889506..a06c1903183f 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig @@ -12,7 +12,12 @@ config NF_DEFRAG_IPV4

# old sockopt interface and eval loop config IP_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY - tristate + tristate "Legacy IP tables support" + default n + select NETFILTER_XTABLES + help + iptables is a general, extensible packet identification legacy framework. + This is not needed if you are using iptables over nftables (iptables-nft).

config NF_SOCKET_IPV4 tristate "IPv4 socket lookup support" @@ -177,7 +182,7 @@ config IP_NF_MATCH_TTL config IP_NF_FILTER tristate "Packet filtering" default m if NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n - select IP_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY + depends on IP_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY help Packet filtering defines a table `filter', which has a series of rules for simple packet filtering at local input, forwarding and @@ -217,7 +222,7 @@ config IP_NF_NAT default m if NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n select NF_NAT select NETFILTER_XT_NAT - select IP_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY + depends on IP_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY help This enables the `nat' table in iptables. This allows masquerading, port forwarding and other forms of full Network Address Port @@ -258,7 +263,7 @@ endif # IP_NF_NAT config IP_NF_MANGLE tristate "Packet mangling" default m if NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n - select IP_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY + depends on IP_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY help This option adds a `mangle' table to iptables: see the man page for iptables(8). This table is used for various packet alterations @@ -293,7 +298,7 @@ config IP_NF_TARGET_TTL # raw + specific targets config IP_NF_RAW tristate 'raw table support (required for NOTRACK/TRACE)' - select IP_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY + depends on IP_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY help This option adds a `raw' table to iptables. This table is the very first in the netfilter framework and hooks in at the PREROUTING @@ -305,9 +310,7 @@ config IP_NF_RAW # security table for MAC policy config IP_NF_SECURITY tristate "Security table" - depends on SECURITY - depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED - select IP_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY + depends on SECURITY && NETFILTER_ADVANCED && IP_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY help This option adds a `security' table to iptables, for use with Mandatory Access Control (MAC) policy. diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/config b/tools/testing/selftests/net/config index 5b9baf708950..784e2965896a 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/config +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/config @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ CONFIG_IP_DCCP=m CONFIG_NF_NAT=m CONFIG_IP6_NF_IPTABLES=m CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=m +CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES_LEGACY=m CONFIG_IP6_NF_NAT=m CONFIG_IP6_NF_RAW=m CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=m