Re: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: nf_tables: limit maximum table name length to 32 bytes

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On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 02:05:32PM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> On 05.03, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > Set the same as we use for chain names, it should be enough.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > @Patrick: I'm planning to add per-table information after the name field, this
> > will make it easier and this stays consistent to what we have in chains and
> > sets (and other new object we'll add). I wouldn't expect people using larger
> > names than this limit.
> 
> What kind of information are we talking about?

The hardware offload stuff, we'll need to keep a reference to the
net_device *dev in the table, to call this from the commit path. But I
can keep this in that batch if you prefer to have a larger view on
this.
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