On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 12:08 AM Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Saturday 2023-11-04 22:00, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote: > > > >IPv4 in IPv6 is supported by in6_pton [...] > >but the provided buffer is too short: > > If in6_pton were to support tunnel traffic.. wait that sounds > unusual, and would require dst to be at least 20 bytes, which the > function documentation contradicts. > > As the RFCs make no precise name proposition > > (IPv6 Text Representation, third alternative, > IPv4 "decimal value" of the "four low-order 8-bit pieces") > > so let's just call it > > "low-32-bit dot-decimal representation" > > which should avoid the tunnel term. Resent [ https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20231105195600.522779-1-maze@xxxxxxxxxx/ ], hopefully this is better. Also: - used your (Jan's) new email in the CC. - changed net to netfilter in the commit title (but as it is such a trivial bug fix, it does still feel like it should go straight into net/main... rather than via netfilter repos) Cheers, Maciej
