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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: Support NAT-ed expect entries from user space
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:05:47 +0200
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Patrick McHardy wrote:
> BORBELY Zoltan wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:52:28PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>  
>>> I'm wondering, how is this expectation creation working at all?
>>> The NULL expectfn makes me think it will crash as soon as the
>>> expectation arrives. This *needs* support from the helpers to
>>> properly set the expectfn.
>>>     
>>
>> The nf_nat_follow_master did the trick for me if I set the expectation
>> entry from user space. With NULL expectfn it didn't work.
>>   
> 
> Yes, so the kernel is broken.


This turned out to be wrong, the expectfn is optional.