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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: rectify XT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN usage
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:48:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD02998.707@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271856071-32179-3-git-send-email-jengelh@medozas.de>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> There has been quite a confusion in userspace about
> XT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN. Change it to match the definition of
> XT_TABLE_MAXNAMELEN - being the size of the actual struct member.

iptables userspace uses XT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN - 1 for checking
the length of names. Changing the definition now will change
the behaviour of userspace code.

If you want to clean this up, I'd suggest to introduce a new
define and use that.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-22 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-21 13:21 nf-next: two small ones Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-21 13:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] nefilter: use pr_devel instead of pr_debug Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-22 10:46   ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-22 10:53     ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-22 11:00       ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-22 11:01         ` David Miller
2010-04-22 11:04           ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-22 11:00       ` David Miller
2010-04-22 10:55     ` David Miller
2010-04-21 13:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: rectify XT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN usage Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-22 10:48   ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2010-04-26 12:47     ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-27 13:35       ` Patrick McHardy

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