From 7eac4ac06fb03b8fce9b5d8bd368493482a1efe7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sebres <serg.brester@sebres.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:11:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fail2ban-regex: accepts filter parameters with new-line

---
 fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py b/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py
index 90e178f9..8c03b2dd 100644
--- a/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py
+++ b/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ class Fail2banRegex(object):
 		fltFile = None
 		fltOpt = {}
 		if regextype == 'fail':
-			if re.search(r'^/{0,3}[\w/_\-.]+(?:\[.*\])?$', value):
+			if re.search(r'^(?ms)/{0,3}[\w/_\-.]+(?:\[.*\])?$', value):
 				try:
 					fltName, fltOpt = extractOptions(value)
 					if "." in fltName[~5:]: