Re: iptables problem upgrading kernel from 3.18.8 to 3.19.1

[Florian Westphal]

David R <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[ CC Pablo & stable@ ]

> I've just had an exception to my "uneventful kernel upgrade" monotony.
> 
> My boot scripts failed when setting up the firewall due to this :-
> 
>     xt_recent: hitcount (1) is larger than packets to be remembered (1)
> for table xxxx
> 
> This is a completely straightforward
> 
>     iptables -A yyyy -j REJECT -p tcp --reject-with tcp-reset -m recent
> --set --name xxxx --rsource
> 
> Looking at the history for xt_recent.c it looks like this was introduced
> in abc86d0f99242b7f142b7cb8f90e30081dd3c256 but maybe corrected in
> cef9ed86ed62eeffcd017882278bbece32001f86 ?

Right.  I would recommend to revert abc86d0f99242b7f142b7cb8f90e30081dd3c256
in 3.19.y series rather than applying cef9ed86ed62, though.

Sorry,
Florian
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