From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, Quan Tian <tianquan23@gmail.com>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kadlec@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 nf-next 1/2] netfilter: nf_tables: use struct nlattr * to store userdata for nft_table
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:34:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240312143444.GG1529@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZfBkB3VcbfzZe0fw@calendula>
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> > > + struct nlattr *udata;
>
> May I suggest to use our own data structure, instead of using nlattr?
> It is just a bit misleading to the reader.
>
> But maybe I need to get used to this and that's all, your call.
I have no preference. I thought reusing nlattr was simpler
because you can just kmemdup the nlattr+header.
I'll leave it up to patch author, no strong opinion either.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-12 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-11 14:14 [PATCH v3 nf-next 1/2] netfilter: nf_tables: use struct nlattr * to store userdata for nft_table Quan Tian
2024-03-11 14:14 ` [PATCH v3 nf-next 2/2] netfilter: nf_tables: support updating " Quan Tian
2024-03-12 12:27 ` Florian Westphal
2024-03-12 12:49 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-03-12 13:01 ` Florian Westphal
2024-03-12 14:26 ` Quan Tian
2024-03-12 14:33 ` Florian Westphal
2024-03-12 22:23 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-03-13 1:35 ` Quan Tian
2024-03-13 9:40 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-03-13 17:08 ` Quan Tian
2024-03-12 14:36 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-03-12 13:49 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-03-12 14:02 ` Florian Westphal
2024-03-12 14:10 ` Florian Westphal
2024-03-12 14:30 ` Quan Tian
2024-03-12 14:05 ` [PATCH v3 nf-next 1/2] netfilter: nf_tables: use struct nlattr * to store " Florian Westphal
2024-03-12 14:17 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-03-12 14:34 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2024-03-12 15:03 ` Quan Tian
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