From: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx> It would be better not to drop skb in conntrack unless we have good alternatives. So we can treat the result of testing skb's header pointer as nf_conntrack_tcp_packet() does. Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_dccp.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_dccp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_dccp.c index e2db1f4ec2df..ebc4f733bb2e 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_dccp.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_dccp.c @@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ int nf_conntrack_dccp_packet(struct nf_conn *ct, struct sk_buff *skb, dh = skb_header_pointer(skb, dataoff, sizeof(*dh), &_dh.dh); if (!dh) - return NF_DROP; + return -NF_ACCEPT; if (dccp_error(dh, skb, dataoff, state)) return -NF_ACCEPT; @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ int nf_conntrack_dccp_packet(struct nf_conn *ct, struct sk_buff *skb, /* pull again, including possible 48 bit sequences and subtype header */ dh = dccp_header_pointer(skb, dataoff, dh, &_dh); if (!dh) - return NF_DROP; + return -NF_ACCEPT; type = dh->dccph_type; if (!nf_ct_is_confirmed(ct) && !dccp_new(ct, skb, dh, state)) -- 2.37.3