src: add table declaration to cache

Add declared table objects to the cache, thus we can refer to objects that
come in this batch but that are not yet available in the kernel. This happens
from the evaluation step.

Get rid of code that is doing this from the later do_command_*() stage.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/evaluate.c b/src/evaluate.c
index d18b8f63..8b54dbc0 100644
--- a/src/evaluate.c
+++ b/src/evaluate.c
@@ -1885,6 +1885,19 @@ static int table_evaluate(struct eval_ctx *ctx, struct table *table)
 	struct chain *chain;
 	struct set *set;
 
+	if (table_lookup(&ctx->cmd->handle) == NULL) {
+		if (table == NULL) {
+			table = table_alloc();
+			handle_merge(&table->handle, &ctx->cmd->handle);
+			table_add_hash(table);
+		} else {
+			table_add_hash(table_get(table));
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (ctx->cmd->table == NULL)
+		return 0;
+
 	ctx->table = table;
 	list_for_each_entry(set, &table->sets, list) {
 		handle_merge(&set->handle, &table->handle);
@@ -1916,8 +1929,6 @@ static int cmd_evaluate_add(struct eval_ctx *ctx, struct cmd *cmd)
 			return 0;
 		return chain_evaluate(ctx, cmd->chain);
 	case CMD_OBJ_TABLE:
-		if (cmd->data == NULL)
-			return 0;
 		return table_evaluate(ctx, cmd->table);
 	default:
 		BUG("invalid command object type %u\n", cmd->obj);