Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] netfilter: ctnetlink: Fix regression in CTA_STATUS processing

[Pablo Neira Ayuso]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 02:49:43PM -0800, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> The libnetfilter_conntrack userland library always sets IPS_CONFIRMED
> when building a CTA_STATUS attribute.  If this toggles the bit from
> 0->1, the parser will return an error.  On Linux 4.4+ this will cause any
> NFQA_EXP attribute in the packet to be ignored.  This breaks conntrackd's
> userland helpers because they operate on unconfirmed connections.
> 
> Instead of returning -EBUSY if the user program asks to modify an
> unchangeable bit, simply ignore the change.
> 
> Also, fix the logic so that user programs are allowed to clear
> the bits that they are allowed to change.

Applied, thanks Kevin.

I have manually fixed here this compilation warning, btw:

net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c:1449:1: warning:
âctnetlink_update_statusâ defined but not used [-Wunused-function] ctnetlink_update_status(struct nf_conn *ct, const struct nlattr * const cda[])
 ^