netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] netfilter: Create revision 2 of xt

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Date:   Sun, 25 Sep 2016 13:35:01 +0200
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Vishwanath Pai <vpai@...mai.com>
Cc:     Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>, kaber@...sh.net,
        kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu, johunt@...mai.com,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, pai.vishwain@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] netfilter: Create revision 2 of xt_hashlimit to
 support higher pps rates

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 02:39:45PM -0400, Vishwanath Pai wrote:
> Thanks for pointing this out, I will reorder the fields to:
> 
> struct hashlimit_cfg2 {
> 	__u64 avg;    /* Average secs between packets * scale */
> 	__u64 burst;
> 	__u32 mode; /* bitmask of XT_HASHLIMIT_HASH_* */
> 
> This should fix the hole and avoid padding.

I have manually mangled this here, and applied, to get this change in
this in merge window.

I also have to revert the rename of XT_HASHLIMIT_SCALE to
XT_HASHLIMIT_SCALE_v1. This is exposed through uapi, this change would
break userspace.

Please, follow up in case of any fallout, thanks.