[tproxy] Problem with Tproxy more kernel2.6.22.9

Jan Engelhardt jengelh at computergmbh.de
Fri Jan 11 12:03:20 CET 2008


On Jan 11 2008 12:02, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>On Jan 11 2008 10:44, Laszlo Attila Toth wrote:
>>Ming-Ching Tiew írta:
>>> From: "Welisson" <welissontome at ig.com.br>
>>>> ===========ERROR Start=============
>>>> net/netfilter/xt_tproxy.c:48: warning: initialization from incompatible
>>>> pointer type
>>>> net/netfilter/xt_tproxy.c:56: warning: initialization from incompatible
>>>> pointer type
>>>> ===========ERROR END===============
>>> 
>>> You are picking up some unimportant. That's just a warning and it is not 
>>> the cause of squid not support tproxy4.
>>> 
>>> Ignore the warning.
>>
>>That's right. This is because there is a minor change in the declaration 
>>of checkentry  member of struct xt_match. TProxy doesn't use the changed 
>>parameters also this warning can be safely ignored.
>
>No it cannot be ignored. If you compile tproxy-4.0.3-2.6.22.tar.gz
>(which contains 2.6.23 kernel code, though!) with a kernel _prior_ to
>2.6.23, you may corrupt the stack.

...or may get an unaligned access on hardware which does not transparently
handle unaligned accesses like x86 does.


More information about the tproxy mailing list