Re: [PATCH 0/7] netfilter: ebtables: CONFIG_COMPAT support

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Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think it's best to have the compat code in the fast path, since that's
> the code that will be needed in the future on those machines (I'll make
> the userspace workaround a compile-time option that is turned off by
> default in the next release of ebtables).
> Shouldn't it be possible for the compat code to know when a certain
> wrong size is due to the userspace workaround?
> If that situation is the
> case, then the compat code can execute the "native" getsockopt instead
> of producing a kernel error message...

This is what I plan to do in the next revision.

I'll send this particular change as a patch of its own
on top of the main compat hunk to ease review.

Thanks,
	Florian
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