Re: tc filter add ... fw ... action drop

[Patrick McHardy]

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> 
>>That command is from a script that used to work with iproute2-ss020116
>>(2002!), which had the following in tc/m_police.c:
>>
>>210     } else if (strcmp(*argv, "action") == 0) {
>>211             NEXT_ARG();
>>212             if (get_police_result(&p.action, &presult, *argv)) {
>>
>>I don't know when that bit was dropped, but it used to be there. :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Indeed, I missed that. I'll fix up the patch ..


OK this patch fixes parsing of "action ...". I've removed
the erroring on unknown arguments again since in that case
the caller should continue parsing.


diff --git a/tc/m_police.c b/tc/m_police.c
index 36a7719..76cdbe1 100644
--- a/tc/m_police.c
+++ b/tc/m_police.c
@@ -227,7 +227,8 @@ int act_parse_police(struct action_util *a,int *argc_p, 
char ***argv_p, int tca_
                        p.action = TC_POLICE_OK;
                } else if (matches(*argv, "pipe") == 0) {
                        p.action = TC_POLICE_PIPE;
-               } else if (strcmp(*argv, "conform-exceed") == 0) {
+               } else if (strcmp(*argv, "action") == 0 ||
+                          strcmp(*argv, "conform-exceed") == 0) {
                        NEXT_ARG();
                        if (get_police_result(&p.action, &presult, *argv)) {
                                fprintf(stderr, "Illegal \"action\"\n");