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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xt_connbytes: handle negation correctly
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:51:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111223135109.GA10482@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324056915-637-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de>

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> "! --connbytes 23:42" should match if the packet/byte count is not in range.
> 
> As there is no explict "invert match" toggle in the match structure,
> userspace swaps the from and to arguments
> (i.e., as if "--connbytes 42:23" were given).
> 
> However, "what <= 23 && what >= 42" will always be false.
> 
> Change things so we use "||" in case "from" is larger than "to".
> 
> This change may look like it breaks backwards compatibility when "to" is 0.
> However, older iptables binaries will refuse "connbytes 42:0",
> and current releases treat it to mean "! --connbytes 0:42",
> so we should be fine.

Applied, thanks Florian. I'll pass this for 3.2-rc inclusion.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-23 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-16 17:35 [PATCH] netfilter: xt_connbytes: handle negation correctly Florian Westphal
2011-12-23 13:51 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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2011-12-23 14:04 Netfilter updates for 3.2-rc pablo
2011-12-23 14:04 ` [PATCH] netfilter: xt_connbytes: handle negation correctly pablo

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