From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: [PATCH net] Revert "netfilter: ensure number of counters is >0 in do_replace()" Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 19:54:02 +0200 Message-ID: <1433181242-22768-2-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> References: <1433181242-22768-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1433181242-22768-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Bernhard Thaler This partially reverts commit 1086bbe97a07 ("netfilter: ensure number of counters is >0 in do_replace()") in net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c. Setting rules with ebtables does not work any more with 1086bbe97a07 place. There is an error message and no rules set in the end. e.g. ~# ebtables -t nat -A POSTROUTING --src 12:34:56:78:9a:bc -j DROP Unable to update the kernel. Two possible causes: 1. Multiple ebtables programs were executing simultaneously. The ebtables userspace tool doesn't by default support multiple ebtables programs running Reverting the ebtables part of 1086bbe97a07 makes this work again. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Thaler Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso --- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c index 24c7c96..91180a7 100644 --- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c +++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c @@ -1117,8 +1117,6 @@ static int do_replace(struct net *net, const void __user *user, return -ENOMEM; if (tmp.num_counters >= INT_MAX / sizeof(struct ebt_counter)) return -ENOMEM; - if (tmp.num_counters == 0) - return -EINVAL; tmp.name[sizeof(tmp.name) - 1] = 0; @@ -2161,8 +2159,6 @@ static int compat_copy_ebt_replace_from_user(struct ebt_replace *repl, return -ENOMEM; if (tmp.num_counters >= INT_MAX / sizeof(struct ebt_counter)) return -ENOMEM; - if (tmp.num_counters == 0) - return -EINVAL; memcpy(repl, &tmp, offsetof(struct ebt_replace, hook_entry)); -- 1.7.10.4