If the user doesn't specify a seed, generate one at configuration time. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- @Laura: I think it's better if we deal with this case from kernelspace. net/netfilter/nft_hash.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c b/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c index baf694de3935..97ad8e30e4b4 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c @@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ static int nft_hash_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, if (!tb[NFTA_HASH_SREG] || !tb[NFTA_HASH_DREG] || !tb[NFTA_HASH_LEN] || - !tb[NFTA_HASH_SEED] || !tb[NFTA_HASH_MODULUS]) return -EINVAL; @@ -80,7 +79,10 @@ static int nft_hash_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, if (priv->offset + priv->modulus - 1 < priv->offset) return -EOVERFLOW; - priv->seed = ntohl(nla_get_be32(tb[NFTA_HASH_SEED])); + if (tb[NFTA_HASH_SEED]) + priv->seed = ntohl(nla_get_be32(tb[NFTA_HASH_SEED])); + else + get_random_bytes(&priv->seed, sizeof(priv->seed)); return nft_validate_register_load(priv->sreg, len) && nft_validate_register_store(ctx, priv->dreg, NULL, -- 2.1.4 -- 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