Re: libnetfilter_conntrack endian issue

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

Albert Veli wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I run contrack-tools on a big-endian arm machine and had a problem:
> 
> $ conntrack -L
> conntrack v0.9.7: Operation failed: Address family not supported by protocol
> 
> The problem was in libnetfilter_conntrack-0.0.96/src/conntrack/api.c.
> See attached endian.patch. In nfct_build_query() the *data argument is
> converted into a u_int8_t*. This works for little-endian but not for
> big-endian. The fix is a one-liner. Replace
> 
>  const u_int8_t *family = data;
> 
> with
> 
>  const u_int32_t *family = data;
> 
> After the patch it works:
> 
> $ conntrack -L
> conntrack v0.9.7: 0 flow entries has been shown.
> 
> I also tested the patch on my little-endian laptop and it doesn't seem
> to cause any regression there. Just wanted to let you guys know.

Applied. Thanks Albert.

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