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| author | Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> | 2010-02-15 16:31:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> | 2010-02-15 16:31:35 +0100 |
| commit | 98e6d2d5ee26bf56850a10eb64139c68fb09ba19 (patch) | |
| tree | 055bf0f62ae891886357a8b5280fd7d9956cd62d /net/netfilter | |
| parent | ca1c2e2da9637c131436bf6d6ae41b58f5353afe (diff) | |
netfilter: xt_recent: inform user when hitcount is too large
It is one of these things that iptables cannot catch and which can
cause "Invalid argument" to be printed. Without a hint in dmesg, it is
not going to be helpful.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/xt_recent.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c b/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c index 203333107367..132cfaa84cdc 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ module_param(ip_list_perms, uint, 0400); module_param(ip_list_uid, uint, 0400); module_param(ip_list_gid, uint, 0400); MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_list_tot, "number of IPs to remember per list"); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_pkt_list_tot, "number of packets per IP to remember (max. 255)"); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_pkt_list_tot, "number of packets per IP address to remember (max. 255)"); MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_list_hash_size, "size of hash table used to look up IPs"); MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_list_perms, "permissions on /proc/net/xt_recent/* files"); MODULE_PARM_DESC(ip_list_uid,"owner of /proc/net/xt_recent/* files"); @@ -306,8 +306,12 @@ static bool recent_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par) if ((info->check_set & (XT_RECENT_SET | XT_RECENT_REMOVE)) && (info->seconds || info->hit_count)) return false; - if (info->hit_count > ip_pkt_list_tot) + if (info->hit_count > ip_pkt_list_tot) { + pr_info(KBUILD_MODNAME ": hitcount (%u) is larger than " + "packets to be remembered (%u)\n", + info->hit_count, ip_pkt_list_tot); return false; + } if (info->name[0] == '\0' || strnlen(info->name, XT_RECENT_NAME_LEN) == XT_RECENT_NAME_LEN) return false; |