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Date:      Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:10:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/12484: [PATCH] bpf_filter() broken
Message-ID:  <200107211710.f6LHA1086986@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/12484; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/12484: [PATCH] bpf_filter() broken
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 13:18:45 -0400

 Adding this to the Audit-Trail.
 
 On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 10:40:39PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
 > I kept the following private mail about this:
 > 
 > > From bde@zeta.org.au Wed Aug 16 03:34:22 2000 +1000
 > > Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 03:34:20 +1000 (EST)
 > > From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
 > > X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org
 > > To: Johan Karlsson <k@numeri.campus.luth.se>
 > > Subject: Re: PR 12484 and your commit rev 1.14 of src/sys/net/bpf_filter.c
 > > In-Reply-To: <200008150757.JAA13997@numeri.campus.luth.se>
 > > Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008160316500.2104-100000@besplex.bde.org>
 > > MIME-Version: 1.0
 > > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
 > > Status: O
 > > X-Status: 
 > > X-Keywords:                  
 > > X-UID: 859
 > > 
 > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Johan Karlsson wrote:
 > > 
 > > > Hi Bruce
 > > > It seems you commited a fix for PR 12484 in rev 1.14 of 
 > > > src/sys/net/bpf_filter.c.
 > > > 
 > > > Can the PR be closed or should the 
 > > > "inconsistent and probably unnecessarily pessimal" checks
 > > > be fixed first?
 > > 
 > > I don't know bpf well enough to be sure of more than the formal
 > > correctness of the fix.  The people on the Cc line of the PR
 > > should know :-).  Craig Leres didn't seem to have any objections.
 > > 
 > > The efficiency issues were more interesting on old (slow) hardware.
 > > 
 > > PR 16644 is also about this.  Its author is also at LBL, but seems
 > > to be as confused as usual.
 > > 
 > > Bruce
 > 
 > Bruce
 > 

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