Re: [PATCH v2] netfilter: ebtables: make broute table work again

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

On 10/01/11 17:28, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le lundi 10 janvier 2011 à 17:20 +0100, Florian Westphal a écrit :
>> broute table init hook sets up the "br_should_route_hook" pointer,
>> which then gets called from br_input.
>>
>> commit a386f99025f13b32502fe5dedf223c20d7283826
>> (bridge: add proper RCU annotation to should_route_hook)
>> introduced a typedef, and then changed this to:
>>
>> br_should_route_hook_t *rhook;
>> [..]
>> rhook = rcu_dereference(br_should_route_hook);
>> if (*rhook(skb))
>>
>> problem is that "br_should_route_hook" contains the address of the function,
>> so calling *rhook() results in kernel panic.
>>
>> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/if_bridge.h |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/if_bridge.h b/include/linux/if_bridge.h
>> index f7e73c3..dd3f201 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/if_bridge.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/if_bridge.h
>> @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ struct __fdb_entry {
>>  
>>  extern void brioctl_set(int (*ioctl_hook)(struct net *, unsigned int, void __user *));
>>  
>> -typedef int (*br_should_route_hook_t)(struct sk_buff *skb);
>> +typedef int br_should_route_hook_t(struct sk_buff *skb);
>>  extern br_should_route_hook_t __rcu *br_should_route_hook;
>>  
>>  #endif
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks guys!
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