From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] ctnetlink: add callbacks to the per-proto nlattrs
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:25:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CA690F.20107@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090316221135.741449312@jonathan.eitzenberger.org>
Holger Eitzenberger wrote:
> There is added a single callback for the l3 proto helper. The two
> callbacks for the l4 protos are necessary because of the general
> structure of a ctnetlink event, which is in short:
>
> CTA_TUPLE_ORIG
> <l3/l4-proto-attributes>
> CTA_TUPLE_REPLY
> <l3/l4-proto-attributes>
> CTA_ID
> ...
> CTA_PROTOINFO
> <l4-proto-attributes>
> CTA_TUPLE_MASTER
> <l3/l4-proto-attributes>
>
> Therefore the formular is
>
> size := sizeof(generic-nlas) + 3 * sizeof(tuple_nlas) + sizeof(protoinfo_nlas)
>
> Some of the NLAs are optional, e. g. CTA_TUPLE_MASTER, which is only
> set if it's an expected connection. But the number of optional NLAs is
> small enough to prevent netlink_trim() from reallocating if calculated
> properly.
Applied, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-25 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-16 22:06 [patch 0/6] netfilter: ctnetlink allocation improvement Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-16 22:07 ` [patch 1/6] ctnetlink: add callbacks to the per-proto nlattrs Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-25 17:25 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-03-16 22:07 ` [patch 2/6] netlink: add nla_policy_len() Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-25 17:27 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-16 22:07 ` [patch 3/6] netfilter: limit the length of the helper name Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-25 17:32 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-25 17:41 ` Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-25 17:44 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-16 22:07 ` [patch 4/6] ctnetlink: allocate right-sized ctnetlink skb Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-25 17:46 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-16 22:07 ` [patch 5/6] netfilter: add generic function to get len of generic policy Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-16 22:07 ` [patch 6/6] netfilter: calculate per-protocol nlattr size Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-17 4:35 ` [patch 0/6] netfilter: ctnetlink allocation improvement Patrick McHardy
2009-03-17 7:39 ` Holger Eitzenberger
2009-03-17 9:07 ` Florian Westphal
2009-03-17 10:24 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-03-17 9:49 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-03-17 10:03 ` Holger Eitzenberger
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