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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: "Maciej Żenczykowski" <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
Cc: "Maciej Żenczykowski" <maze@google.com>,
	"Pablo Neira Ayuso" <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	"Florian Westphal" <fw@strlen.de>,
	"Linux Network Development Mailing List" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Netfilter Development Mailing List"
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Manoj Basapathi" <manojbm@codeaurora.org>,
	"Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan" <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH netfilter] netfilter: xt_IDLETIMER: fix idletimer_tg_helper non-kosher casts
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 23:40:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210402214049.GL13699@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210402201156.2789453-1-zenczykowski@gmail.com>

Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
> 
> The code is relying on the identical layout of the beginning
> of the v0 and v1 structs, but this can easily lead to code bugs
> if one were to try to extend this further...

What is the concern?  These structs are part of ABI, they
cannot be changed.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-02 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-02 20:11 [PATCH netfilter] netfilter: xt_IDLETIMER: fix idletimer_tg_helper non-kosher casts Maciej Żenczykowski
2021-04-02 21:40 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2021-04-02 22:50   ` Maciej Żenczykowski

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