[libvirt] [PATCH v3] nwfilter: check for inverted ctdir

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Tue May 14 21:11:59 UTC 2013


On 05/14/2013 03:58 PM, Stefan Berger wrote:
> Linux netfilter at some point (Linux 2.6.39) inverted the meaning of the
> '--ctdir reply' and newer netfilter implementations now expect
> '--ctdir original' instead and vice-versa.
> We check for the kernel version and assume that all Linux kernels with version
> 2.6.39 have the newer inverted logic.

BTW, can you add a comment to the commit log pointing out that any
distro that backports the netfilter --ctdir "fix" to a pre-2.6.39 kernel
will need to also carry a patch against libvirt that changes
ebiptablesDriverProbeCtdir to detect their kernel version as being
"corrected"?




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