Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is a forward-ported original patch from Andrzej Hajda, he said: > > "IS_ERR_VALUE should be used only with unsigned long type. > Otherwise it can work incorrectly. To achieve this function > xt_percpu_counter_alloc is modified to return unsigned long, > and its result is assigned to temporary variable to perform > error checking, before assigning to .pcnt field. > > The patch follows conclusion from discussion on LKML [1][2]. > > [1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2120927 > [2]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2150581"; > > Original patch from Andrzej is here: > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/582970/ > > This patch has clashed with input validation fixes for x_tables. AFAICS this isn't a bug fix so I'm fine with this going into nf-next. -- 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
