On Tuesday 2008-12-09 15:05, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> When running `ip6tables -m rateest` without any other arguments, >> rateest did segfault. >> --- >> extensions/libxt_rateest.c | 2 +- >> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/extensions/libxt_rateest.c b/extensions/libxt_rateest.c >> index ebea437..f0dd577 100644 >> --- a/extensions/libxt_rateest.c >> +++ b/extensions/libxt_rateest.c >> @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ rateest_final_check(unsigned int flags) >> { >> struct xt_rateest_match_info *info = rateest_info; >> >> - if (!(info->flags & XT_RATEEST_MATCH_REL)) >> + if (info != NULL && !(info->flags & XT_RATEEST_MATCH_REL)) >> info->flags |= XT_RATEEST_MATCH_ABS; > > I think we should print an error message instead. The kernel will > refuse it anyways. parent cea9f71f5618250a38acb21c31fbbf93a752f7d4 commit e2ac8eed9cd24bfabedb931c854ab7e0c9de5fd1 Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Dec 24 20:15:44 2008 +0100 rateest: guard against segfault Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- extensions/libxt_rateest.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/extensions/libxt_rateest.c b/extensions/libxt_rateest.c index ebea437..333239d 100644 --- a/extensions/libxt_rateest.c +++ b/extensions/libxt_rateest.c @@ -306,6 +306,9 @@ rateest_final_check(unsigned int flags) { struct xt_rateest_match_info *info = rateest_info; + if (info == NULL) + exit_error(PARAMETER_PROBLEM, "rateest match: " + "you need to specify some flags"); if (!(info->flags & XT_RATEEST_MATCH_REL)) info->flags |= XT_RATEEST_MATCH_ABS; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html