Hi Chenbo, On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 10:45:58AM -0700, Chenbo Feng wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 3:51 AM Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > Do you mean the remain field will be zeroed when copying the > xt_quota_info struct out of the kernel? I believe that is decided by > the usersize defined in struct xt_match and this patch set it to the > full struct size. So the whole xt_quota_info struct will be copied > into userspace including the field stores the remaining quota. The > userspace will not be aware of it if the ipatbles is not updated but > it should not modify it as well. I have tested the behavior with > net-next branch and it seems working. Am I missing something > recently updated? Hm, I see, I overlook that your patch removes this: - .usersize = offsetof(struct xt_quota_info, master), BTW, is iptables -D command working with your patch? Telling this because if .usersize is removed, then IIRC userspace compares this new remain field with userspace value and deletion will break. Patch that I was referring before is this one from Willem: commit f32815d21d4d8287336fb9cef4d2d9e0866214c2 Author: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jan 2 17:19:40 2017 -0500 xtables: add xt_match, xt_target and data copy_to_user functions xt_entry_target, xt_entry_match and their private data may contain kernel data. [...] Private data is defined in xt_match and xt_target. All matches and targets that maintain kernel data store this at the tail of their private structure. Extend xt_match and xt_target with .usersize to limit how many bytes of data are copied. The remainder is cleared. Let me know, thanks !