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* [nft PATCH 0/4] Changes in nft byteorder conversions
@ 2014-07-28 11:51 Alvaro Neira Ayuso
  2014-07-28 11:51 ` [nft PATCH 1/4] payload: fix update context with wrong byteorder Alvaro Neira Ayuso
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From: Alvaro Neira Ayuso @ 2014-07-28 11:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netfilter-devel; +Cc: kaber

Currently, when we have added a rule, we have done some byteorder conversions
in the parser step, evaluation step and linealize step. For that, in some case
if we try to add rules, we have done wrong byteorder conversions and we have had
matching problems or when we have tried to show the rules that we have added
we have showed rules with values in wrong byteorder. We have had too this
problems when we have used sets or range.

This series of patches changes the policy for doing byteorder conversions in our
rules. We are going to do all the conversions in two steps, parser and
evaluation. That changes remove consecutive byteorder conversions, make more
easy administrate the byteorder conversions for adding and for showing rules and
fix some case that we don't update correctly the context for using values
without correctly byteorder conversions. This patches enables to use ranges and
sets with the rules without problems.

Comments are welcome.

Alvaro Neira Ayuso (4):
  payload: fix update context with wrong byteorder
  src: fix byteorder conversions in simple values
  src: fix byteorder conversions in range values
  src: fix byteorder conversions in sets

 include/gmputil.h         |    1 +
 include/netlink.h         |    3 +--
 src/datatype.c            |    8 ++++++--
 src/evaluate.c            |   48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 src/expression.c          |    8 ++++++--
 src/gmputil.c             |   15 +++++++++++++-
 src/netlink.c             |   13 ++++++++----
 src/netlink_delinearize.c |   49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 src/netlink_linearize.c   |   10 ++++-----
 src/payload.c             |   10 ++++++---
 10 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.10.4


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