Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:07:36 +0100 | From | Patrick McHardy <> | Subject | Re: netfilter spurious ELOOP |
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David Miller wrote: > From: Francis Dupont <Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr> > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:02:05 +0100 > > Adding correct CC:'s > >> 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).
Just to clarify: does the problem happens when you have the MARK rule above in a user-defined chain that has more then one jump leading to it or does it also happen in other cases?
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