Re: [PATCH] netfilter: NF_HOOK_COND has wrong conditional

From: Patrick McHardy
Date: Fri Nov 12 2010 - 02:32:16 EST


On 11.11.2010 21:49, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2010-11-11 20:09, Eric Paris wrote:
>
>> The NF_HOOK_COND returns 0 when it shouldn't due to what I believe to be an
>> error in the code as the order of operations is not what was intended. C will
>> evalutate == before =. Which means ret is getting set to the bool result,
>> rather than the return value of the function call. The code says
>>
>> if (ret = function() == 1)
>> when it meant to say:
>> if ((ret = function()) == 1)
>
> Thanks for catching. Indeed (ret = f) == 1 is desired, as can be seen in
> patch 2249065f4b22b493bae2caf549b86f175f33188e.

Applied, thanks Eric.
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