Re: [iptables PATCH v2 2/2] xtables: Fix for false-positive rule matching

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Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> wrote:
> When comparing two rules with non-standard targets, differences in
> targets' payloads wasn't respected.
> 
> The cause is a rather hideous one: Unlike xtables_find_match(),
> xtables_find_target() did not care whether the found target was already
> in use or not, so the same target instance was assigned to both rules
> and therefore payload comparison happened over the same memory location.
> 
> With legacy iptables it is not possible to reuse a target: The only case
> where two rules (i.e., iptables_command_state instances) could exist at
> the same time is when comparing rules, but that's handled using libiptc.

This causes:

extensions/libebt_ip.t: ERROR: line 2 (cannot delete: ebtables -I INPUT -p ip --ip-src ! 192.168.0.0/24 -j ACCEPT)

(and similar errors).

I've applied patch 1.



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