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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] net: Kernel side filtering for route dumps
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:32:48 -0400
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Without getting into Ahern's patchset, which he obviously feels 
quite passionately about..

On (10/11/18 12:28), David Miller wrote:
> 
> Once you've composed the message, the whole point of filtering is lost.

it would be nice to apply the filter *before* constructing the skb, 
but afaict most things in BPF today only operate on sk_buffs. How should
we use *BPF on something other than an sk_buff?

--Sowmini