From b83712e3ec13383a2da961f2a13ed7cd9d09724a 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 4ab8a8a3..e0caae70 100644
--- a/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py
+++ b/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ 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:]: