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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] conntrack: fix nfct_clone with certain attribute data types
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:19:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121127141924.GD14156@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121127140509.GA8853@1984>

Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:39:55PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > --- a/src/conntrack/api.c
> > +++ b/src/conntrack/api.c
> > @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ struct nf_conntrack *nfct_clone(const struct nf_conntrack *ct)
> >  
> >  	if ((clone = nfct_new()) == NULL)
> >  		return NULL;
> > -	memcpy(clone, ct, sizeof(*ct));
> > +	nfct_copy(clone, ct, NFCT_CP_ALL);
> 
> That seems safe to me.
> 
> Still I think NFCT_CP_OVERRIDE is faster. I added that flag way after
> to improve a bit the copying time.

I missed that, thanks.

Suggestion:
I'll re-send with the above changed to
nfct_copy(clone, ct, NFCT_CP_OVERRIDE)

plus adding copy_attr_help_info(ct1, ct2)
to __copy_fast.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-27 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-19 21:39 [PATCH] conntrack: fix nfct_clone with certain attribute data types Florian Westphal
2012-11-27 14:05 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-11-27 14:19   ` Florian Westphal [this message]

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