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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ctnetlink: fix missing CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPEC
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:44:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <494189BF.1040701@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49410EFF.1020603@trash.net>

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>> This patch fixes an inconsistency in nfnetlink_conntrack.h that
>> I introduced myself. The problem is that CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPEC is
>> missing from enum ctattr_natseq. This inconsistency may lead to
>> problems in the message parsing in userspace (if the message
>> contains the CTA_NAT_SEQ_* attributes, of course).
>>
>> This patch breaks backward compatibility, however, the only known
>> client of this code is libnetfilter_conntrack which indeed crashes
>> because it assumes the existence of CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPEC to do
>> the parsing.
>>
>> The CTA_NAT_SEQ_* attributes were introduced in 2.6.25.
> 
> Applied, thanks.

Thanks Patrick. This one should go to 2.6.28 as bugfix I think. Do you
plan to pass it to David?

-- 
"Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-11 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-10 20:06 [PATCH] netfilter: ctnetlink: fix missing CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPEC Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-12-11 13:00 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-12-11 21:44   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2008-12-15 12:12     ` Patrick McHardy

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