Re: [PATCH libnftnl] set: Add support for NFTA_SET_SUBKEY attributes

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On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:01:52 +0100
Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:24:48 +0100
> Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > +		if (!*l)
> > > +			break;
> > > +		v = *l;
> > > +		mnl_attr_put_u32(nlh, NFTA_SET_SUBKEY_LEN, htonl(v));    
> > 
> > I guess you're copying the value here because how htonl() is declared,
> > but may it change the input value non-temporarily? I mean, libnftnl is
> > in control over the array so from my point of view it should be OK to
> > directly pass it to htonl().  
> 
> It won't change the input value at all, but that's not the point: I'm
> reading from an array of 8-bit values and attributes are 32 bits. If I
> htonl() directly on the input array, it's going to use 24 bits around
> those 8 bits.

Err, wait, never mind :) I'm just passing the value, not the reference
there -- no need to copy anything of course. I'll drop this copy in v2.

-- 
Stefano





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