From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Philip Craig <philipc@snapgear.com>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>,
netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: ulogd2 and nflog prefix
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:06:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44682889.107@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <446826EF.1070004@snapgear.com>
Philip Craig wrote:
> On 05/15/2006 03:36 PM, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>>Most other netlink users in the kernel dealing with strings use
>>rtattr_strlcpy these days, which automatically terminates strings.
>>I think we should do the same for consistency.
>
>
> rtattr_strlcpy seems to be for getting the string out of a message,
> not for creating a message. It copies the string and adds a null
> terminator. The terminator in the message is optional.
Right, I somehow though the prefix was also configured using netlink,
which is of course wrong. In that case I think nfnetlink_log should
just 0-terminate the string. BTW, Is there any reason why the prefix
is truncated to NFULNL_PREFIXLEN?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-15 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-15 2:49 ulogd2 and nflog prefix Philip Craig
2006-05-15 5:36 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-05-15 6:59 ` Philip Craig
2006-05-15 7:06 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2006-05-15 7:33 ` Philip Craig
2006-05-15 7:39 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-05-15 7:59 ` Philip Craig
2006-05-15 8:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-05-15 9:35 ` Harald Welte
2006-05-15 9:41 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-05-15 9:05 ` Philip Craig
2006-05-15 9:10 ` Patrick McHardy
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