From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: "Banerjee, Debabrata" <dbanerje@akamai.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org"
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
"coreteam@netfilter.org" <coreteam@netfilter.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix handling of verdicts after NF_QUEUE
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 23:42:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171212224229.GA17187@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3187cfae08f34dd89201f0d2265ab306@usma1ex-dag1mb2.msg.corp.akamai.com>
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:36:35AM +0000, Banerjee, Debabrata wrote:
> > From: Pablo Neira Ayuso [mailto:pablo@netfilter.org]
> > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 06:30:24PM -0500, Debabrata Banerjee wrote:
> > > + } else {
> > > + /* Implicit handling for NF_STOLEN, as well as any other
> > > + * non conventional verdicts.
> > > + */
> > > + ret = 0;
> >
> > Another possibility (more simple?) would be this:
> >
> > int nf_hook_slow(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nf_hook_state *state) {
> > struct nf_hook_entry *entry;
> > unsigned int verdict;
> > - int ret = 0;
> > + int ret;
> >
> > entry = rcu_dereference(state->hook_entries);
> > next_hook:
> > + ret = 0;
> >
> > Basically, make sure ret is set to zero when jumping to the next_hook label.
>
> Many ways to fix it, but I thought including the comment was appropriate.
> Happy to change it if we want simpler instead.
OK, let's take this one.
Please, send a patch in git-format-patch, that we can pass to -stable.
Cc netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org and stable@vger.kernel.org should
be fine, you can also include gregkh@linuxfoundation.org since he
maintains 4.9-stable.
I'll ack this by when you send it.
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-12 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-11 23:30 [PATCH] Fix handling of verdicts after NF_QUEUE Debabrata Banerjee
2017-12-12 0:23 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-12-12 0:36 ` Banerjee, Debabrata
2017-12-12 22:42 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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2017-12-13 20:33 Debabrata Banerjee
2017-12-14 12:30 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-12-14 17:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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