Cesarcesarb@mastodon.social
Oct 15, 2026, 8:45 PM@zzt That post mentions diffing against the wrong commit, it's probably mixing in hundreds of unrelated commits. No wonder it doesn't make any sense.
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- Cesarcesarb@mastodon.socialOct 15, 2026, 9:01 PM
@zzt Even then, I've looked at all branches in that repository for changes to net/netfilter/xt_HL.c (the file from the first screenshot), and can't find any change like that. It's baffling, where did that come from? It doesn't seem to be from the Linux git repository (including the branch mentioned in the message).
- Cesarcesarb@mastodon.socialOct 15, 2026, 9:03 PM
@zzt ...wait a bit, that's a diff between net/netfilter/xt_HL.c and net/netfilter/xt_hl.c, two unrelated files (the target and the match)! No wonder the diff makes no sense.
- Cesarcesarb@mastodon.socialOct 15, 2026, 9:09 PM
@zzt And the second screenshot is a diff between net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c and net/netfilter/xt_tcpmss.c, again two unrelated files. One is the implementation for "iptables -j TCPMSS", the other is the implementation for "iptables -m tcpmss".
Oct 15, 2026, 9:24 PM@cesarb makes sense, I’ve edited out the screenshots until I get some cleaner diffs