From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] netfilter: CONFIG_COMPAT: allow delta to exceed 32767
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:40:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B79872A.3090605@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265897559-10610-4-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de>
Florian Westphal wrote:
> with 32 bit userland and 64 bit kernels, it is unlikely but possible
> that insertion of new rules fails even tough there are only about 2000
> iptables rules.
>
> This happens because the compat delta is using a short int.
> Easily reproducible via "iptables -m limit" ; after about 2050
> rules inserting new ones fails with -ELOOP.
>
> Note that compat_delta included 2 bytes of padding on x86_64, so
> structure size remains the same.
Also applied, thanks Florian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-15 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-11 14:12 [PATCH v2 0/10] netfilter: ebtables: CONFIG_COMPAT support Florian Westphal
2010-02-11 14:12 ` [PATCH 01/10] netfilter: ebtables: abort if next_offset is too small Florian Westphal
2010-02-15 17:40 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-11 14:12 ` [PATCH 02/10] netfilter: ebtables: avoid explicit XT_ALIGN() in match/targets Florian Westphal
2010-02-15 17:40 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-11 14:12 ` [PATCH 03/10] netfilter: CONFIG_COMPAT: allow delta to exceed 32767 Florian Westphal
2010-02-15 16:33 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-15 16:37 ` Florian Westphal
2010-02-15 17:08 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-15 17:40 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2010-02-11 14:12 ` [PATCH 04/10] netfilter: ebtables: split do_replace into two functions Florian Westphal
2010-02-11 14:12 ` [PATCH 05/10] netfilter: ebtables: split copy_everything_to_user " Florian Westphal
2010-02-11 14:12 ` [PATCH 06/10] netfilter: ebtables: split update_counters " Florian Westphal
2010-02-11 14:12 ` [PATCH 07/10] netfilter: ebtables: add CONFIG_COMPAT support Florian Westphal
2010-02-11 14:12 ` [PATCH 08/10] netfilter: ebtables: try native set/getsockopt handlers, too Florian Westphal
2010-02-11 17:40 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-11 21:50 ` Florian Westphal
2010-02-11 14:12 ` [PATCH 09/10] netfilter: ebt_limit: add CONFIG_COMPAT support Florian Westphal
2010-02-13 13:20 ` [PATCH v2 0/10] netfilter: ebtables: " Bart De Schuymer
2010-02-13 13:31 ` Florian Westphal
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