On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 01:41:21AM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:53:41AM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> > The newly introduced ordered insert algorithm in
> > xtables_register_{match,target}() works best if extensions of same name
> > are passed in ascending revisions. Since this is the case in about all
> > extensions' arrays, iterate over them from beginning to end.
>
> This patch should come first in the series, my understanding is that
> 1/3 assumes that extensions are registered from lower to higher
> revision number.
No, the algorithm is supposed to work with arbitrary input. This is
merely an optimization given how extension arrays are typically ordered.
Cheers, Phil
