cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw ipfw2.c

John-Mark Gurney gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu
Sat Sep 11 16:54:02 PDT 2004


Christian S.J. Peron wrote this message on Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 19:44 +0000:
>   Currently when ipfw(8) generates the micro-instructions for rules which
>   contain O_UID, O_GID and O_JAIL opcodes, the F_NOT or F_OR logical
>   operator bits get clobbered. Making it impossible to use the ``NOT'' or
>   ``OR'' operators with uid, gid and jail based constraints.
>   
>   The ipfw_insn instruction template contains a ``len'' element which
>   stores two pieces of information, the size of the instruction
>   (in 32-bit words) in the low 6 bits of "len" with the 2 remaining
>   bits to implement OR and NOT.

Why don't we use the bit field?
	u_int8_t	logic : 2;
	u_int8_t	len : 8;

considering this is already used by the enum..  It'd make bugs like
these less likely...

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