netdev - Re: [PATCH] secmark: do not return early if there was no error

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Date:	Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:08:26 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
CC:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter@...r.kernel.org,
	coreteam@...filter.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, jengelh@...ozas.de, paul.moore@...com,
	jmorris@...ei.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] secmark: do not return early if there was no error

Am 13.10.2010 22:21, schrieb Eric Paris:
> Commit 4a5a5c73 attempted to pass decent error messages back to userspace for
> netfilter errors.  In xt_SECMARK.c however the patch screwed up and returned
> on 0 (aka no error) early and didn't finish setting up secmark.  This results
> in a kernel BUG if you use SECMARK.
> 
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at net/netfilter/xt_SECMARK.c:38!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
> last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/cache/index2/shared_cpu_map
> CPU 0
> Modules linked in: xt_SECMARK iptable_mangle nfs lockd fscache nfs_acl
> auth_rpcgss sunrpc ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables
> uinput virtio_net virtio_balloon i2c_piix4 i2c_core joydev microcode ipv6
> virtio_blk virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio [last unloaded: speedstep_lib]
> 
> ...
> RIP  [<ffffffffa022117d>] secmark_tg+0x17/0x2e [xt_SECMARK]
> RSP <ffff880003e03a40>
> ---[ end trace 9aa5d06a71143e74 ]---
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>

Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>

I'll leave it up to Dave whether this can still go into 2.6.36.
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