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Commitf8e6089820("netfilter: ctnetlink: Resolve conntrack L3-protocol flush regression") introduced a regression in which deletion of conntrack entries would fail because the L3 protocol information is replaced by AF_UNSPEC. As a result the search for the entry to be deleted would turn up empty due to the tuple used to perform the search is now different from the tuple used to initially set up the entry. For flushing the conntrack table we do however want to keep the option for nfgenmsg->version to have a non-zero value to allow for newer user-space tools to request treatment under the new behavior. With that it is possible to independently flush tables for a defined L3 protocol. This was introduced with the enhancements in in commit59c08c69c2("netfilter: ctnetlink: Support L3 protocol-filter on flush"). Older user-space tools will retain the behavior of flushing all tables regardless of defined L3 protocol. Fixes:f8e6089820("netfilter: ctnetlink: Resolve conntrack L3-protocol flush regression") Suggested-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Felix Kaechele <felix@kaechele.ca> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.