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Date:   Mon, 2 Aug 2021 17:32:11 +0200
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To:     Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iptables PATCH] ebtables: Dump atomic waste
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On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 02:54:48PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 01:59:30PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 01:59:02PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > > offlist
> > 
> > actually not :)
> 
> :D
> 
> The file is written by store_table_in_file() in communication.c, writing
> a struct ebt_replace plus a number of struct ebt_entries. At this point
> I stopped, assuming that translating back and forth would involve too
> much legacy cruft.

Hm, so it looks like a memory dump of the ruleset blob representation
into a file.