From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: "Carlos Falgueras García" <carlosfg@riseup.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4 v6] libnftnl: rule: Change the "userdata" attribute to use new TLV buffer
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:38:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160415103805.GA10438@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <570FD99E.7040708@riseup.net>
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 07:55:42PM +0200, Carlos Falgueras García wrote:
> I don't understand. With the modification to the patch [4/4 v6] you made,
> there is still a data copy and it is passed in the same way. This copy has
> moved from libnftnl to nft, but it still exists.
This is an old bug, it's been there for a while.
> There are another 'frees' I think is better to change it for
> 'nftnl_udata_buf_free', although in practice it is the same.
There is no value in using nftnl_udata_buf_free().
nftnl_udata_buf_*() functions are helpers to build the sequence of
TLVs, once this is done, I don't see any good reason to use out of
that context.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-15 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-22 19:46 [PATCH 1/4 v6] libnftnl: Implement new buffer of TLV objects Carlos Falgueras García
2016-03-22 19:46 ` [PATCH 2/4 v6] libnftnl: rule: Change the "userdata" attribute to use new TLV buffer Carlos Falgueras García
2016-04-13 23:59 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-04-14 17:55 ` Carlos Falgueras García
2016-04-15 10:38 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2016-03-22 19:46 ` [PATCH 3/4 v6] libnftnl: test: Update test to check new nftnl_udata features of nftnl_rule Carlos Falgueras García
2016-04-14 0:00 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-03-22 19:46 ` [PATCH 4/4 v6] nftables: rule: Change the field "rule->comment" for an nftnl_udata_buf Carlos Falgueras García
2016-04-14 0:01 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-04-13 23:13 ` [PATCH 1/4 v6] libnftnl: Implement new buffer of TLV objects Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-04-13 23:55 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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