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Commit f3c5c1bf authored by Jan Engelhardt's avatar Jan Engelhardt Committed by Patrick McHardy
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netfilter: xtables: make ip_tables reentrant



Currently, the table traverser stores return addresses in the ruleset
itself (struct ip6t_entry->comefrom). This has a well-known drawback:
the jumpstack is overwritten on reentry, making it necessary for
targets to return absolute verdicts. Also, the ruleset (which might
be heavy memory-wise) needs to be replicated for each CPU that can
possibly invoke ip6t_do_table.

This patch decouples the jumpstack from struct ip6t_entry and instead
puts it into xt_table_info. Not being restricted by 'comefrom'
anymore, we can set up a stack as needed. By default, there is room
allocated for two entries into the traverser.

arp_tables is not touched though, because there is just one/two
modules and further patches seek to collapse the table traverser
anyhow.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
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