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    netfilter: nf_nat: fix NAT issue in 2.6.30.4+ · f9dd09c7
    Jozsef Kadlecsik authored
    Vitezslav Samel discovered that since 2.6.30.4+ active FTP can not work
    over NAT. The "cause" of the problem was a fix of unacknowledged data
    detection with NAT (commit a3a9f79e
    
    ).
    However, actually, that fix uncovered a long standing bug in TCP conntrack:
    when NAT was enabled, we simply updated the max of the right edge of
    the segments we have seen (td_end), by the offset NAT produced with
    changing IP/port in the data. However, we did not update the other parameter
    (td_maxend) which is affected by the NAT offset. Thus that could drift
    away from the correct value and thus resulted breaking active FTP.
    
    The patch below fixes the issue by *not* updating the conntrack parameters
    from NAT, but instead taking into account the NAT offsets in conntrack in a
    consistent way. (Updating from NAT would be more harder and expensive because
    it'd need to re-calculate parameters we already calculated in conntrack.)
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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