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2009 Nov 09
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[Bug 619] New: If /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe is absent, errno is clobbered in get_modprobe
...bluecatnetworks.com In do_command(), if iptc_init() fails, it's expected that errno will be set to a useful value that is printed by xtables_error(). However, when iptc_init() fails for the first time, an attempt is made to load the ip_tables module via xtables_load_ko(), which in turn calls xtables_insmod(), which calls get_modprobe() to get the path of the binary from the proc filesystem (if it wasn't explicitly specified with --modprobe). To that end, get_modprobe() attempts to open() /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe, which may be absent (eg. if LKM support is not enabled). In that case, the failed...