Hi, had trouble getting the userspace cthelper for ftp working, tracked down the problem to incorrect length and incorrect params to nla_memcpy() when handling the helper's priv data in kernel. --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c.orig 2019-10-11 18:21:44.000000000 +0200 +++ net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c 2019-10-15 22:00:21.159986725 +0200 @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ nfnl_cthelper_from_nlattr(struct nlattr if (help->helper->data_len == 0) return -EINVAL; - nla_memcpy(help->data, nla_data(attr), sizeof(help->data)); + nla_memcpy(help->data, attr, help->helper->data_len); return 0; } @@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ nfnl_cthelper_create(const struct nlattr ret = -ENOMEM; goto err2; } + helper->data_len = size; helper->flags |= NF_CT_HELPER_F_USERSPACE; memcpy(&helper->tuple, tuple, sizeof(struct nf_conntrack_tuple)); -- Regards a_h