netdev - Re: [PATCH net+iproute2 0/2] nbyte, cmp and text filter fixups

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Date:   Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:59:40 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@...xmox.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net+iproute2 0/2] nbyte, cmp and text filter fixups

Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:32:33AM CET, w.bumiller@...xmox.com wrote:
>The iproute2 part allows the the actual use of the already existing
>quoted string parsing.

Makes no sense to send iproute2 patch which is not related with the
kernel ones in the same set. Please send it separatelly.

>
>The kernel side fixes an oob read in em_nbyte and allows 'layer 0' in
>cmp and nbyte (and em_text whose existence surprised me given that I did
>not see it exposed via iproute2) to actually match layer 0 rather than
>being the same as specifying layer 1.
>
>I seem to have stumbled upon a layer of dust (says git-blame).
>Trying to match mac addresses I felt that the examples found online
>using the 'u32' filter were rather inconvenient, particularly given
>that there's the 'nbyte' filter around that could just memcmp the
>entire a byte sequence at once.
>
>Wolfgang Bumiller (1; 2):
>  tc/lexer: let quotes actually start strings
>
> tc/emp_ematch.l | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>  net: sched: em_nbyte: don't add the data offset twice
>  net_sched: fix TCF_LAYER_LINK case in tcf_get_base_ptr

"net: sched:" or "net_sched:"? - please, try to be consistent