From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: nf_tables: limit maximum table name length to 32 bytes
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 15:12:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150305141259.GA7374@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150305140532.GH29092@acer.localdomain>
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 02:05:32PM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> On 05.03, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > Set the same as we use for chain names, it should be enough.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> > ---
> > @Patrick: I'm planning to add per-table information after the name field, this
> > will make it easier and this stays consistent to what we have in chains and
> > sets (and other new object we'll add). I wouldn't expect people using larger
> > names than this limit.
>
> What kind of information are we talking about?
The hardware offload stuff, we'll need to keep a reference to the
net_device *dev in the table, to call this from the commit path. But I
can keep this in that batch if you prefer to have a larger view on
this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-05 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-05 14:05 [PATCH net-next] netfilter: nf_tables: limit maximum table name length to 32 bytes Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-03-05 14:05 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-03-05 14:12 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2015-03-05 14:12 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-03-05 16:32 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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