linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] Netfilter: Merge ipt_LOG and ip6_LOG into xt

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Date:	Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:14:46 +0100
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
Cc:	Netfilter Developer Mailing List 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Networking Developer Mailing List 
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Netfilter: Merge ipt_LOG and ip6_LOG into xt_LOG

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de> wrote:
> On Monday 2012-01-30 10:01, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
>
>>On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at> wrote:
>>> ipt_LOG and ip6_LOG have a lot of common code, merge them
>>> to reduce duplicate code.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
>>
>>No comments?
>
> Adding Pablo to Cc.
>
>
> Do you have the patchset as a retrievable git tree, btw?

Only for kernel stuff:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc.git xt_LOG

If you want it for the user space part too, I can setup something...

>
>>[PATCH 6/6] iptables: xt_LOG: Add ring buffer support
>>
>>in libxt_LOG.c:
>>+.size = XT_ALIGN(sizeof(struct xt_log_info_v1) + sizeof(void *)),
>
> Why the extra void*?

The kernel space part of  xt_log_info_v1 differs from the user space struct,
it contains an extra pointer to the ring buffer context.

Iptables must not see this extra pointer because the kernel writes to it.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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