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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
	Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>,
	"kaber@trash.net" <kaber@trash.net>,
	"jengelh@medozas.de" <jengelh@medozas.de>,
	"netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org"
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"dan.carpenter@oracle.com" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	"hans@schillstrom.com" <hans@schillstrom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xt_HMARK: endian bugs
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:13:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337022835.8512.610.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120514190211.GC14897@1984>

On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 21:02 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:

> IIRC, Hans wants that, in case you have a cluster composed of system
> with different endianess, the hash mark calculated will be the same
> in both systems. To ensure that the distribution is consistent with
> independency of the endianess.

Then jhash() must be audited to make sure its output is OK with this
requirement.






  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-14 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-14 13:42 [PATCH] netfilter: xt_HMARK: endian bugs Hans Schillstrom
2012-05-14 14:40 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-05-14 15:05   ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-05-14 15:05   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-05-14 15:24     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-14 16:09       ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-05-14 16:24         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-14 17:51           ` Hans Schillstrom
2012-05-14 18:24             ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-05-14 18:28             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-14 18:35             ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-05-14 19:02               ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-05-14 19:13                 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-05-15  5:57                   ` Hans Schillström
2012-05-15  7:33       ` Hans Schillström

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