[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "netfilter: nft_compat: fix wrong target lookup in nft_target_select_ops()" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 17 11:16:01 UTC 2014


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

    netfilter: nft_compat: fix wrong target lookup in nft_target_select_ops()

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 81603a0ef02f2253a562c9ebc78147098e237c65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arturo Borrero <arturo.borrero.glez at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:22:40 +0100
Subject: netfilter: nft_compat: fix wrong target lookup in
 nft_target_select_ops()

commit 7965ee93719921ea5978f331da653dfa2d7b99f5 upstream.

The code looks for an already loaded target, and the correct list to search
is nft_target_list, not nft_match_list.

Signed-off-by: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nft_compat.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_compat.c b/net/netfilter/nft_compat.c
index 1840989092ed..5b5ab9ec1a90 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_compat.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_compat.c
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ nft_target_select_ops(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 	family = ctx->afi->family;

 	/* Re-use the existing target if it's already loaded. */
-	list_for_each_entry(nft_target, &nft_match_list, head) {
+	list_for_each_entry(nft_target, &nft_target_list, head) {
 		struct xt_target *target = nft_target->ops.data;

 		if (strcmp(target->name, tg_name) == 0 &&
--
2.1.0





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