From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: Increasing XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN to 32
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:47:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120929184716.GA4050@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1209291844490.19330@nerf07.vanv.qr>
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 06:46:22PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Saturday 2012-09-29 17:53, Cong Wang wrote:
>
> >Hi, netfilter experts,
> >
> >A customer wants to increase XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN to at least 31 (1
> >for '\0'), so I just increase it to 32. Do you have any comments or
> >objections for the following patch?
>
> This is a no-no. You are breaking the ABI.
Agreed. Sorry Cong, you cannot do that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-29 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-29 15:53 Increasing XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN to 32 Cong Wang
2012-09-29 16:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-09-29 18:47 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2012-10-02 4:21 ` Cong Wang
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