From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: xt_bpf: support ebpf
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 00:22:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161205232214.GA15825@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF=yD-Jk4W+zU=tdixWe3LPGcFp-sANxXLLoQTRvrkN_3=a9uw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 06:06:05PM -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
[...]
> Eric also suggests a private variable to avoid being subject to
> changes to PATH_MAX. Then we can indeed also choose an arbitrary lower
> length than current PATH_MAX.
Good.
> FWIW, there is a workaround for users with deeply nested paths: the
> path passed does not have to be absolute. It is literally what is
> passed on the command line to iptables right now, including relative
> addresses.
If iptables userspace always expects to have the bpf file repository
in some given location (suggesting to have a directory that we specify
at ./configure time, similar to what we do with connlabel.conf), then
I think we can rely on relative paths. Would this be flexible enough
for your usecase?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-05 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-05 20:28 [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: xt_bpf: support ebpf Willem de Bruijn
2016-12-05 21:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-05 21:30 ` Florian Westphal
2016-12-05 22:34 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-12-05 22:40 ` Florian Westphal
2016-12-05 22:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-12-05 23:05 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-12-05 23:00 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-12-05 23:06 ` Willem de Bruijn
2016-12-05 23:22 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2016-12-05 23:29 ` Willem de Bruijn
2016-12-05 23:51 ` Willem de Bruijn
2016-12-06 0:20 ` Florian Westphal
2016-12-06 22:44 ` Willem de Bruijn
2016-12-05 22:55 ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-12-05 23:01 ` Willem de Bruijn
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