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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [libnftnl PATCH] src: Fix nftnl_assert() on data_len
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:32:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200214173247.2wbrvcqilqfmcqq5@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200214172417.11217-1-phil@nwl.cc>

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 06:24:17PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote:
> Typical idiom for *_get_u*() getters is to call *_get_data() and make
> sure data_len matches what each of them is returning. Yet they shouldn't
> trust *_get_data() to write into passed pointer to data_len since for
> chains and NFTNL_CHAIN_DEVICES attribute, it does not. Make sure these
> assert() calls trigger in those cases.

The intention to catch for unset attributes through the assertion,
right?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-14 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-14 17:24 [libnftnl PATCH] src: Fix nftnl_assert() on data_len Phil Sutter
2020-02-14 17:32 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2020-02-14 17:34   ` Phil Sutter
2020-02-14 17:42     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-02-15  0:43       ` Phil Sutter
2020-02-15 13:17         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-02-15 22:58           ` Phil Sutter
2020-02-18 13:42             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-02-18 18:18               ` Phil Sutter
2020-02-18 21:06                 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-02-18 23:02                   ` Phil Sutter
2020-02-19  9:32                     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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