From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
coreteam@netfilter.org, Francis_Dupont@isc.org,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netfilter spurious ELOOP
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:07:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CA64D8.9040602@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090324.162808.114465835.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Francis Dupont <Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr>
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:02:05 +0100
>
> Adding correct CC:'s
>
>> summary: iptables command gets spurious ELOOP errors
>>
>> report: when a rule with a target like MARK --set-mark 0x80000001
>> then adding new other rules can failed with "Too many levels of symbolic
>> links" (aka ELOOP) error.
>> The problem is in kernel net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c in the
>> mark_source_chains() routine which checks the verdict field of
>> targets even for not standard targets.
>>
>> keywords: netfilter target eloop
>>
>> environment: recent gentoo and fedora. Problem not fixed in
>> linux-2.6.29 (last stable version taken from kernel.org some minutes ago).
Just to clarify: does the problem happens when you have the MARK rule
above in a user-defined chain that has more then one jump leading to
it or does it also happen in other cases?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-25 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200903242302.n2ON25u4024288@givry.fdupont.fr>
2009-03-24 23:28 ` netfilter spurious ELOOP David Miller
2009-03-25 17:07 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-03-25 17:37 ` Francis Dupont
2009-03-25 18:12 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-25 18:38 ` Patrick McHardy
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