netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] netfilter: updates for net-next

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Message-ID: <aLbMxUF4J2BrFqR5@strlen.de>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:53:57 +0200
From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	pablo@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] netfilter: updates for net-next

Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de> wrote:
> The following patchset contains Netfilter fixes for *net-next*:
> 
> 1) prefer vmalloc_array in ebtables, from  Qianfeng Rong.
> 2) Use csum_replace4 instead of open-coding it, from Christophe Leroy.
> 3+4) Get rid of GFP_ATOMIC in transaction object allocations, those
>      cause silly failures with large sets under memory pressure, from
>      myself.
> 5) Introduce new NFTA_DEVICE_PREFIX attribute in nftables netlink api,
>    re-using old NFTA_DEVICE_NAME led to confusion with different
>    kernel/userspace versions.  This refines the wildcard interface
>    support added in 6.16 release.  From Phil Sutter.

As per discussion I'll route patch 5 via net tree instead, so:

pw-bot: changes-requested

A new nf-next -> net-next MR will follow.