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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@azazel.net>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	Netfilter Devel <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [nf-next PATCH v2 1/5] netfilter: bitwise: keep track of bit-length of expressions
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 11:58:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220409095802.GC19371@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YlFUBZg+983PofgH@azazel.net>

Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@azazel.net> wrote:
> Good point.  I imagine I copied and pasted the types from `len`, which
> also has `NLA_U32` and `u8`.  It, however, is parsed correctly:
> 
>   err = nft_parse_u32_check(tb[NFTA_BITWISE_LEN], U8_MAX, &len);
>   if (err < 0)
>     return err;
> 
> Since `len` is `u8`, `nbits` will need to be `u16`.  My inclination is
> to leave the netlink type as NLA_U32 and parse it as follows:
> 
>   err = nft_parse_u32_check(tb[NFTA_BITWISE_NBITS], U8_MAX * BITS_PER_BYTE,
>                             &nbits);
>   if (err < 0)
>     return err;

Yes, thats fine as well.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-09  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-04 12:04 [nf-next PATCH v2 0/5] netfilter: bitwise: support boolean operations with variable RHS operands Jeremy Sowden
2022-04-04 12:04 ` [nf-next PATCH v2 1/5] netfilter: bitwise: keep track of bit-length of expressions Jeremy Sowden
2022-04-05 11:28   ` Florian Westphal
2022-04-05 20:47     ` Jeremy Sowden
2022-04-06  3:12       ` Florian Westphal
2022-05-05 19:54         ` Jeremy Sowden
2022-04-08 23:27   ` Florian Westphal
2022-04-09  9:38     ` Jeremy Sowden
2022-04-09  9:58       ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2022-04-04 12:04 ` [nf-next PATCH v2 2/5] netfilter: bitwise: replace hard-coded size with `sizeof` expression Jeremy Sowden
2022-04-09 10:07   ` Florian Westphal
2022-04-04 12:04 ` [nf-next PATCH v2 3/5] netfilter: bitwise: improve error goto labels Jeremy Sowden
2022-04-09 10:07   ` Florian Westphal
2022-04-04 12:04 ` [nf-next PATCH v2 4/5] netfilter: bitwise: rename some boolean operation functions Jeremy Sowden
2022-04-04 12:04 ` [nf-next PATCH v2 5/5] netfilter: bitwise: add support for doing AND, OR and XOR directly Jeremy Sowden

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