When other extensions may have "garbage" appended to their data which should not be considered for match comparison, among match is the opposite in that it extends its data beyond the value in 'size' field. Add special casing to cover for this, avoiding false-positive rule comparison. Fixes: 26753888720d8 ("nft: bridge: Rudimental among extension support") Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> --- iptables/nft-shared.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/iptables/nft-shared.c b/iptables/nft-shared.c index 12860fbf6d575..0cd082b5396d0 100644 --- a/iptables/nft-shared.c +++ b/iptables/nft-shared.c @@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ bool compare_matches(struct xtables_rule_match *mt1, for (mp1 = mt1, mp2 = mt2; mp1 && mp2; mp1 = mp1->next, mp2 = mp2->next) { struct xt_entry_match *m1 = mp1->match->m; struct xt_entry_match *m2 = mp2->match->m; + size_t cmplen = mp1->match->userspacesize; if (strcmp(m1->u.user.name, m2->u.user.name) != 0) { DEBUGP("mismatching match name\n"); @@ -392,8 +393,10 @@ bool compare_matches(struct xtables_rule_match *mt1, return false; } - if (memcmp(m1->data, m2->data, - mp1->match->userspacesize) != 0) { + if (!strcmp(m1->u.user.name, "among")) + cmplen = m1->u.match_size - sizeof(*m1); + + if (memcmp(m1->data, m2->data, cmplen) != 0) { DEBUGP("mismatch match data\n"); return false; } -- 2.40.0