nwfilter: Partly initialize driver even for non-privileged users
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211436 This reverts commit b7829f95. The previous fix was not correct. Like everywhere else, a driver is a global variable allocated in stateInitialize function (or something similar for stateless drivers). Later, when a driver API is called, it's possible that the global variable is accessed and dereferenced. Now, some drivers require root privileges because they undertake some actions reserved only for the system admin (e.g. manipulating host firewall). And here's the trouble, the NWFilter state initializer exited too early when finding out it's running unprivileged, leaving the global NWFilter driver variable uninitialized. Any subsequent API call that tried to lock the driver resulted in dereferencing the driver and thus crash. On the other hand, in order to not resurrect the bug the original commit was fixing, Let's forbid the nwfilter define in session mode. Signed-off-by: NMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Conflicts: src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c: Context. Code changed a bit since 2013. (cherry picked from commit 77d92e2e)
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