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From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [iptables PATCH 3/3] libxtables: Register multiple extensions in ascending order
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 11:29:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201006092955.GK29050@orbyte.nwl.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201005234121.GA14242@salvia>

On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 01:41:21AM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:53:41AM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> > The newly introduced ordered insert algorithm in
> > xtables_register_{match,target}() works best if extensions of same name
> > are passed in ascending revisions. Since this is the case in about all
> > extensions' arrays, iterate over them from beginning to end.
> 
> This patch should come first in the series, my understanding is that
> 1/3 assumes that extensions are registered from lower to higher
> revision number.

No, the algorithm is supposed to work with arbitrary input. This is
merely an optimization given how extension arrays are typically ordered.

Cheers, Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-06  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-22 22:53 [iptables PATCH 0/3] libxtables: Fix for pointless socket() calls Phil Sutter
2020-09-22 22:53 ` [iptables PATCH 1/3] libxtables: Make sure extensions register in revision order Phil Sutter
2020-10-03 11:17   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-04 14:53     ` Phil Sutter
2020-10-05 22:42       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-06  9:27         ` Phil Sutter
2020-10-06  9:50           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-06 10:13             ` Phil Sutter
2020-10-06 10:48               ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-06 12:07   ` [iptables PATCH v2] " Phil Sutter
2020-10-06 23:59     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-09-22 22:53 ` [iptables PATCH 2/3] libxtables: Simplify pending extension registration Phil Sutter
2020-10-05 23:08   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-09-22 22:53 ` [iptables PATCH 3/3] libxtables: Register multiple extensions in ascending order Phil Sutter
2020-10-05 23:41   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-06  9:29     ` Phil Sutter [this message]
2020-09-23 11:45 ` [iptables PATCH 0/3] libxtables: Fix for pointless socket() calls Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-09-23 14:30   ` Phil Sutter
2020-10-07  0:02 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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