[Debian Bug#218837] limit match not working on sparc64

[Harald Welte]

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On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:00:56AM -0500, Laurence J. Lane wrote:
> I received a bug report [0] regarding the limit match not working
> on sparc64 with kernel 2.4.22. It references an earlier report [1]
> of the problem on this list. Harald Welete commented on it [2] and
> asked for additional information, but there is no clear resolution.
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> Anyone?

this is most likely never going to get fixed.   the problem is that the
limit match does an ugly hack: it stores a pointer in it's struct
matchinfo.  That pointer is 64bits in the kernel, but userspace is
32bits, and thus the compilar only allocates 32bit for the pointer in
the structure: boom.

The structure was commented by the original author with:
        /* Ugly, ugly fucker. */

:(

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- Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>             http://www.netfilter.org/
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  "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early
   architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
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