netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: filter: add insn for loading internal transport header offset

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Date:	Fri, 02 May 2014 17:21:24 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Chema Gonzalez <chema@...gle.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: filter: add insn for loading internal
 transport header offset

On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 11:44 -0700, Chema Gonzalez wrote:
> Patch adds an ANC_TRA_OFFSET insn that loads the internal transport
> header of a packet ("internal" meaning after decapsulation by the
> flow dissector).
[...]

This turns the behaviour of the flow dissector into a userland ABI,
which must then be stable.  Is it ready for that?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Lowery's Law:
             If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

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