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    netfilter: bridge: make BRNF_PKT_TYPE flag a bool · a1e67951
    Florian Westphal authored
    nf_bridge_info->mask is used for several things, for example to
    remember if skb->pkt_type was set to OTHER_HOST.
    
    For a bridge, OTHER_HOST is expected case. For ip forward its a non-starter
    though -- routing expects PACKET_HOST.
    
    Bridge netfilter thus changes OTHER_HOST to PACKET_HOST before hook
    invocation and then un-does it after hook traversal.
    
    This information is irrelevant outside of br_netfilter.
    
    After this change, ->mask now only contains flags that need to be
    known outside of br_netfilter in fast-path.
    
    Future patch changes mask into a 2bit state field in sk_buff, so that
    we can remove skb->nf_bridge pointer for good and consider all remaining
    places that access nf_bridge info content a not-so fastpath.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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