netdev - Re: shutdown oops in xt_compat_calc

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Date:	Wed, 6 Apr 2011 01:42:16 +0200
From:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, dann frazier <dannf@...nf.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org" <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: shutdown oops in xt_compat_calc_jump

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> [PATCH] netfilter: fix ebtables
> 
> commit 255d0dc34068a976 (netfilter: x_table: speedup compat operations)
> made ebtables not working anymore.
> 
> 1) xt_compat_calc_jump() is not an exact match lookup, and 
> 2) compat_table_info() has a typo in xt_compat_init_offsets() call
> 3) compat_do_replace() misses a xt_compat_init_offsets() call

Looks good, but

> diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
> index 893669c..c66aa80 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
> @@ -1766,7 +1766,7 @@ static int compat_table_info(const struct ebt_table_info *info,
>  
>  	newinfo->entries_size = size;
>  
> -	xt_compat_init_offsets(AF_INET, info->nentries);
> +	xt_compat_init_offsets(NFPROTO_BRIDGE, info->nentries /* + 4*/);

using ninfo->nentries does not always work because ebtables compat
can call xt_compat_add_offset() more than once per entry.

That is of course not necessary; the ebt compat code should do better.
I plan to look at this in the evening.
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