Re: [PATCH] tun: Fix unicast filter overflow

From: David Miller
Date: Sun Feb 08 2009 - 20:49:20 EST


From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:43:57 -0700

> Sure, that's another option, but we'd then need to figure out what to do
> with TUN_FLT_ALLMULTI. Unicast would almost needs it's own hash list if
> we want to support an allmulti mode that's less than promiscuous. The
> return value of the ioctl is the number of exact filters, so the user
> will know what happened.

Oh so that's what the return value means.

Ok, I guess for now your patch is fine, I'll apply it and
queue it up for -stable, thanks!

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/