[Bridge] ebtables counters bug

Bart De Schuymer bdschuym at pandora.be
Wed Nov 4 13:48:30 PST 2009


Hi Jon,

Thanks for the report. I've fixed the bug in cvs. A new release will 
follow later.

cheers,
Bart

Jon Lewis schreef:
> I posted this yesterday to the netfilter list, but I'm not sure that was 
> the right list for this issue.  I seem to have [re]discovered a bug very 
> similar to if not the same as
> http://osdir.com/ml/linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel/2003-06/msg00002.html
>
> According to the mailing list archive, that bug was fixed in 2003...but 
> either it wasn't, or it's been reintroduced.
>
> I'm using ebtables-v2.0.9-1.tar.gz with CentOS 5.3
> 2.6.18-164.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 04:03:03 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 
> GNU/Linux
>
> Using ebtables, I've setup a number of user-defined chains.  In the INPUT and 
> FORWARD chains, I have rules to jump to these user-defined chains.
>
> I've noticed that any change (adding or deleting a rule) to any chain (at 
> least the INPUT, FORWARD, or any other user-defined one) causes the counters 
> for the last user-defined chain to be reset to 0's.  Creating a new 
> user-defined chain does not seem to affect counters.  Deleting that new 
> user-defined chain does reset the counters in the last 
> remaining user-defined chain.
>
> I just verified the same behavior on a RHEL 5.4 system running
> 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Sep 21 04:37:42 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 
> GNU/Linux
> with
>
> Name        : ebtables                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 2.0.8.2                           Vendor: Dag Apt Repository, 
> http://dag.wieers.com/apt/
> Release     : 1.el5.rf                      Build Date: Fri 14 Mar 2008 
> 12:17:48 AM EDT
> Install Date: Sat 31 Oct 2009 03:09:00 PM EDT      Build Host: 
> lisse.leuven.wieers.com
> Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: 
> ebtables-2.0.8.2-1.el5.rf.src.rpm
> Size        : 558998                           License: GPL
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Sat 15 Mar 2008 12:52:06 AM EDT, Key ID 
> a20e52146b8d79e6
> Packager    : Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>
> URL         : http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/
>
> Code from the patch/fix posted
> http://osdir.com/ml/linux.network.bridge.ebtables.devel/2003-06/msg00004.html
>
> does not appear to be in the current (2.0.9) ebtables.
>
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