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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: cthelper's and default QueueLen -- bug?
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 17:24:22 +0200
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On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:41:55AM -0600, Chas Williams III wrote:
> conntracked.conf states that the default QueueLen is 1024.
> 
> 	# Maximum number of packets waiting in the queue to receive
> 	# a verdict from user-space. Default is 1024.
> 
> However, if the config file doesn't specify a queue length, the
> default length is zero (due to the calloc() allocation).  The
> queue always seems to be pushed up to the kernel regardless
> in cthelper_nfqueue_setup() so the kernel default is overwritten.

Would you send a patch that I can apply via git am to fix this?

Thanks for reporting.