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

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On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 07:37:57PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> 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).

Oh crap, sorry for all the mess. I'll get this fixed, and in future keep
in mind to run the extension testsuite before submitting a series.

Thanks, Phil



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