Hi Phil, On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 05:24:45PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote: > The following series removes the hard-coded restriction on name length > of tables, chains, sets and objects. > > The first patch introduces nla_strdup() which aids in duplicating a > string contained in a netlink attribute. It is used to replace the call > to nla_strlcpy() when populating name fields. > > I've tested the series manually by creating tables, chains, sets and > counter objects with long names and automated by running the py and > shell testsuites of nftables repo. Also, kmemleak did not find anything > nftables related. I like this new dynamic name logic via nla_strdup(). I would like we still have a reasonable upper limit on string length. IIRC, Arturo mentioned he wants to use DNS names to identify sets, so we can just use 255 bytes as RFC 1035 indicates. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
