Re: Increasing XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN to 32

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On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 20:47 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 06:46:22PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > On Saturday 2012-09-29 17:53, Cong Wang wrote:
> > 
> > >Hi, netfilter experts,
> > >
> > >A customer wants to increase XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN to at least 31 (1
> > >for '\0'), so I just increase it to 32. Do you have any comments or
> > >objections for the following patch?
> > 
> > This is a no-no. You are breaking the ABI.
> 
> Agreed. Sorry Cong, you cannot do that.

Ok, no problem.

I knew this could break user-space iptables, so there must be some other
applications relying on this ABI too, hmm... I will tell the customer
this is not possible to change.

Thanks!

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