Pablo Neira Ayuso <pa...@netfilter.org> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 05:23:37PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> If someone sends packets from one of the netdevice ingress hooks to
>> the a userspace queue, and then userspace later accepts the packet,
>> the netfilter code can enter an infinite loop as the list head will
>> never be found.
>>
>> Pass in the saved list_head to avoid this.
>
> There is no userspace queueing for netdevice yet, so this can be route
> through nf-next. Thanks.
*scratches head* the netdevice queueing is in the netfilter core.
netfilter_ingress calls nf_hook_slow. The queuing happens in
nf_hook_slow if anything returns the verdict queue it.
This patch applies to Linus's tree.
So how in the world does this not need to be ported to 4.1?
>> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com>
>> ---
>> net/netfilter/nf_queue.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c b/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c
>> index cd60d397fe05..8a8b2abc35ff 100644
>> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c
>> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_queue.c
>> @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ void nf_reinject(struct nf_queue_entry *entry, unsigned
>> int verdict)
>>
>> if (verdict == NF_ACCEPT) {
>> next_hook:
>> - verdict =
>> nf_iterate(&nf_hooks[entry->state.pf][entry->state.hook],
>> + verdict = nf_iterate(entry->state.hook_list,
>> skb, &entry->state, &elem);
>> }
>>
>> --
>> 2.2.1
>>
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