On 05/15/2006 05:06 PM, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 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?

It makes calculating the size to allocate simpler, but otherwise it
looks like a carryover from when log messages were passed via fixed
size structures.  Giving the full prefix is desirable I think,
especially for log messages generated internally by netfilter.
eg the sequence number check in ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.c

Here's a patch against 2.6.16, tested with ulogd.