Re: [PATCH] note owner match brokenness

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Phil Oester wrote:

>Someone recently complained in bugzilla that the note about owner
>match being broken on SMP took hours to find because it was in
>syslog instead of userspace.  Hopefully the below patch will
>save others some time.
>
>This closes bugzilla #244
>
If we warn in userspace, we should warn when then options are used
instead of in the helptext.

Regards
Patrick

>Phil
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>diff -ru ipt-orig/extensions/libipt_owner.c ipt-new/extensions/libipt_owner.c
>--- ipt-orig/extensions/libipt_owner.c	2004-06-14 15:02:17.000000000 -0700
>+++ ipt-new/extensions/libipt_owner.c	2004-10-01 13:36:50.779263920 -0700
>@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
> "[!] --pid-owner processid  Match local pid\n"
> "[!] --sid-owner sessionid  Match local sid\n"
> "[!] --cmd-owner name       Match local command name\n"
>+"NOTE: pid, sid and command matching are broken on SMP\n"
> "\n",
> IPTABLES_VERSION);
> #else
>@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@
> "[!] --gid-owner groupid    Match local gid\n"
> "[!] --pid-owner processid  Match local pid\n"
> "[!] --sid-owner sessionid  Match local sid\n"
>+"NOTE: pid and sid matching are broken on SMP\n"
> "\n",
> IPTABLES_VERSION);
> #endif /* IPT_OWNER_COMM */
>  
>