From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Subject: Re: Unknown Attribute 5/conntrack -L Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:41:34 +0100 Message-ID: <43662D1E.4000308@eurodev.net> References: <4364E08D.8020402@eurodev.net> <436592AA.6040202@eurodev.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org Return-path: To: Krzysztof Oledzki In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Pablo Neira wrote: > > >>> PS: Would you find some time to look at >>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5438 >> >> >> Can you still trigger that oops with the current working copy from SVN? > > IMHO this is a kernel bug. And to be clear: there is no problem with new > version of userspace application/libraries. > > The problem apperas only with _old_ library. There were a lot of API > changes and probably kernel does not properly validate user data > (boudaries?). Since the old libnfnetlink_conntrack release, some changes have been introduced in kernel space. The corresponding changes to the userspace libraries were applied to keep both in sync. To be frank, I'd worry about fixing the current bugs, focus on the new libraries and do the first 1.0 official release asap. -- Pablo