Re: [RELEASE] ebtables version 2.0.8-rc3

On 10.01.2007 20:08, Bart De Schuymer wrote:
> Op za, 23-12-2006 te 20:37 +0100, schreef Carl-Daniel Hailfinger:
>
>   
>> Userspace sets wh_dst_ofs=EBT_ALIGN(sizeof(struct ebt_among_info)), but the
>> kernel expects wh_dst_ofs=sizeof(struct ebt_among_info). On i386, the EBT_ALIGN
>> macro has no effect for the among match, but on x86_64 it does. That explains
>> why the bug was never noticed on i386.
>>
>> So we either change the kernel or userspace. Changing the kernel would mean
>> that suddenly all existing userspace works.
>>     
>
> It's best not to force people into using a specific kernel, so adjusting
> userspace is the thing to do.
>
> Please test the attached userspace patch.
>   

I'm very sorry, but I have been unable to take the machine in question
out of production to test the patch.

I found a commit in OpenVZ which touches the code in question and will
probably be upstreamed sometime.
http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.24-openvz;a=commit;h=a3d28217a51b57b2980f5fc1203cf7b402ca9bb7

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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