Re: [PATCH] ebtables match inverted in 2.6.28? (Was: Re: ebtablesmatch inverted in 2.6.28?)

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 02:43:37 EST



On Monday 2009-01-12 06:14, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> Matthew Helsley wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 17:00 -0500, Matt Cross wrote:
>>> I think the work to move ebtables to use xtables broke ebtables.
>>> Specifically, in commit 8cc784eec6676b58e7f60419c88179aaa97bf71c the
>>> return value of the match functions was inverted so that they return 1
>>> (true) on matches instead of EBT_MATCH (0), and vice versa (look in
>>> ebt_ip.c). The logic in ebtables.c (ebt_do_table() and
>>> EBT_MATCH_ITERATE()) expect match functions to return 0 for matches.
>>>
>>> The patch at the end of this message fixes the problem, but seems a
>>> little hacky to me. Who's the right person to address this?
>
> Jan, could you have a look at this please?

That seemds indeed so.
Patch is both for 2.6.29-running and 2.6.28.

parent 1e8ca9528de86bdb2d73fbdfb27a10131bb5c593 (v2.6.29-rc1-21-g1e8ca95)
commit cc46eb3e855b7c1f628e934e01b97f4f2642973e
Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jan 12 08:40:22 2009 +0100

netfilter: ebtables: fix inversion in match code

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
index fa108c4..9f46235 100644
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static inline int ebt_do_match (struct ebt_entry_match *m,
{
par->match = m->u.match;
par->matchinfo = m->data;
- return m->u.match->match(skb, par);
+ return m->u.match->match(skb, par) ? EBT_MATCH : EBT_NOMATCH;
}

static inline int ebt_dev_check(char *entry, const struct net_device *device)
--
# Created with git-export-patch
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