linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.12 42/88] netfilter: x_tables: do compat validation via translate

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Message-ID: <20160719091312.GC29897@breakpoint.cc>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:13:12 +0200
From:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:	Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.12 42/88] netfilter: x_tables: do compat validation via
 translate_table

Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de> wrote:
> Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz> wrote:
> > > -	/* And one copy for every other CPU */
> > > -	for_each_possible_cpu(i)
> > > -		if (newinfo->entries[i] && newinfo->entries[i] != entry1)
> > > -			memcpy(newinfo->entries[i], entry1, newinfo->size);
> > 
> > These four lines should be preserved, IMHO, as 3.12 doesn't have commit
> > 482cfc318559 ("netfilter: xtables: avoid percpu ruleset duplication")
> > (introduced in 4.2) which removed the need for per-cpu copies.
> > 
> > The same applies to the other two instances of translate_compat_table()
> > in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c and net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
> > 
> > Florian, do you agree?
> 
> Sorry, I have to look at this in more detail.
> The patches change the compat translation version into a preprocessing
> step rather than a 1:1 replacement of translate_table.
> 
> From first glance the removal is thus ok.

Removal is correct, the expanded ruleset is passed to
translate_table() which will do the percpu duplication as last step.

[ I looked at 3.14.y tree which also dropped these lines in the backport ]