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summary: iptables command gets spurious ELOOP errors

report: when a rule with a target like MARK --set-mark 0x80000001
then adding new other rules can failed with "Too many levels of symbolic
links" (aka ELOOP) error.
The problem is in kernel net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c in the
mark_source_chains() routine which checks the verdict field of
targets even for not standard targets.

keywords: netfilter target eloop

environment: recent gentoo and fedora. Problem not fixed in
linux-2.6.29 (last stable version taken from kernel.org some minutes ago).

proposed fix (checked):
diff --unified=10 net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c*
at the end of the message.

request: can you send to me at both my personal and professional addresses
a bug/ticket number as soon as possible?

Request

Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr

PS: the patch:

--- net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c 2009-03-23 16:12:14.000000000 -0700
+++ net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c+fix 2009-03-24 15:55:45.000000000 -0700
@@ -489,21 +489,23 @@
e->comefrom |= ((1 << hook) | (1 << NF_INET_NUMHOOKS));

/* Unconditional return/END. */
if ((e->target_offset == sizeof(struct ipt_entry)
&& (strcmp(t->target.u.user.name,
IPT_STANDARD_TARGET) == 0)
&& t->verdict < 0
&& unconditional(&e->ip)) || visited) {
unsigned int oldpos, size;

- if (t->verdict < -NF_MAX_VERDICT - 1) {
+ if ((t->verdict < -NF_MAX_VERDICT - 1) &&
+ (strcmp(t->target.u.user.name,
+ IPT_STANDARD_TARGET) == 0)) {
duprintf("mark_source_chains: bad "
"negative verdict (%i)\n",
t->verdict);
return 0;
}

/* Return: backtrack through the last
big jump. */
do {
e->comefrom ^= (1<<NF_INET_NUMHOOKS);

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