From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH nft] netlink: meta: fix wrong type in attributes Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:40:53 +0000 Message-ID: <20140217194053.GB11041@macbook.localnet> References: <1392652085-8225-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de> <20140217172559.GA9866@macbook.localnet> <20140217191436.GA9665@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Florian Westphal , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:52492 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753927AbaBQTk6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:40:58 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140217191436.GA9665@localhost> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:14:36PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 05:25:59PM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:48:05PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote: > > > We segfault on 'list filter' when meta expr is used as _u8 > > > returns invalid register 0. > > > > This seems to only affect the master branch. Not sure how many people > > are using that and if its worth doing a new release. I'd rather merge > > the next-3.14 branch and have people use that. > > Please, go ahead with that. Done. > > On a side note: there's no reason to have our releases timed after > > kernel releases. At this point I'd rather go for more frequent releases > > of the current code instead of backporting fixes. > > We can probably point to the nftables git snapshots from the website > and make the releases when we consider that there a good number of > relevant changes/fixes to make an announce. Yeah, we can switch to a different model once things have calmed down a little. Probably still should aim for a new release by 3.14, maybe earlier, so people can use the new stuff.