[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "net_sched: act_ipt forward compat with xtables" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net_sched: act_ipt forward compat with xtables

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 4a0f542032eb80f72365ea4b500c11c2fd2bc846 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs at mojatatu.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 05:06:38 +0000
Subject: net_sched: act_ipt forward compat with xtables

[ Upstream commit 0dcffd09641f3abb21ac5cabc61542ab289d1a3c ]

Deal with changes in newer xtables while maintaining backward
compatibility. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for suggestions.

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs at mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/sched/act_ipt.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/act_ipt.c b/net/sched/act_ipt.c
index 58fb3c7..c1a8138 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_ipt.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_ipt.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *		as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
  *		2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  *
- * Copyright:	Jamal Hadi Salim (2002-4)
+ * Copyright:	Jamal Hadi Salim (2002-13)
  */

 #include <linux/types.h>
@@ -305,17 +305,44 @@ static struct tc_action_ops act_ipt_ops = {
 	.walk		=	tcf_generic_walker
 };

-MODULE_AUTHOR("Jamal Hadi Salim(2002-4)");
+static struct tc_action_ops act_xt_ops = {
+	.kind		=	"xt",
+	.hinfo		=	&ipt_hash_info,
+	.type		=	TCA_ACT_IPT,
+	.capab		=	TCA_CAP_NONE,
+	.owner		=	THIS_MODULE,
+	.act		=	tcf_ipt,
+	.dump		=	tcf_ipt_dump,
+	.cleanup	=	tcf_ipt_cleanup,
+	.lookup		=	tcf_hash_search,
+	.init		=	tcf_ipt_init,
+	.walk		=	tcf_generic_walker
+};
+
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Jamal Hadi Salim(2002-13)");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Iptables target actions");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_ALIAS("act_xt");

 static int __init ipt_init_module(void)
 {
-	return tcf_register_action(&act_ipt_ops);
+	int ret1, ret2;
+	ret1 = tcf_register_action(&act_xt_ops);
+	if (ret1 < 0)
+		printk("Failed to load xt action\n");
+	ret2 = tcf_register_action(&act_ipt_ops);
+	if (ret2 < 0)
+		printk("Failed to load ipt action\n");
+
+	if (ret1 < 0 && ret2 < 0)
+		return ret1;
+	else
+		return 0;
 }

 static void __exit ipt_cleanup_module(void)
 {
+	tcf_unregister_action(&act_xt_ops);
 	tcf_unregister_action(&act_ipt_ops);
 }

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1.8.1.2