netdev - Re: [PATCH] tun: Fix unicast filter overflow

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Message-Id: <20090208.174854.51245719.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:48:54 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alex.williamson@...com
Cc:	maxk@...lcomm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tun: Fix unicast filter overflow

From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:43:57 -0700

> Sure, that's another option, but we'd then need to figure out what to do
> with TUN_FLT_ALLMULTI.  Unicast would almost needs it's own hash list if
> we want to support an allmulti mode that's less than promiscuous.  The
> return value of the ioctl is the number of exact filters, so the user
> will know what happened.

Oh so that's what the return value means.

Ok, I guess for now your patch is fine, I'll apply it and
queue it up for -stable, thanks!

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