From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next v2] netfilter: meta: add PRANDOM support
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:57:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160229125759.GA16173@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455639848-2454-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de>
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 05:24:08PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Can be used to randomly match packets e.g. for statistic traffic sampling.
>
> See commit 3ad0040573b0c00f8848
> ("bpf: split state from prandom_u32() and consolidate {c, e}BPF prngs")
> for more info why this doesn't use prandom_u32 directly.
>
> Unlike bpf nft_meta can be built as a module, so add an EXPORT_SYMBOL
> for prandom_seed_full_state too.
Applied, thanks for your patience Florian.
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2016-02-16 16:24 [PATCH nf-next v2] netfilter: meta: add PRANDOM support Florian Westphal
2016-02-29 12:57 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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