From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] netfilter: avoid double seq_adjust for loopback Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:30:16 +0200 Message-ID: <4DFA2188.5000505@trash.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Julian Anastasov Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 08.06.2011 08:31, Julian Anastasov wrote: > Avoid double seq adjustment for loopback traffic > because it causes silent repetition of TCP data. One > example is passive FTP with DNAT rule and difference in the > length of IP addresses. > > This patch adds check if packet is sent and > received via loopback device. As the same conntrack is > used both for outgoing and incoming direction, we restrict > seq adjustment to happen only in POSTROUTING. > > Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov Applied, thanks Julian.