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man: string: document BM false negatives
authorJeremy Sowden <jeremy@azazel.net>
Sun, 11 Jun 2023 11:34:29 +0000 (12:34 +0100)
committerPhil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:31:25 +0000 (13:31 +0200)
commit3513f2dd8b9c101dcecee6145a7eac62297ca1c8
treea33f13ebd027dbf44bbf19dc61d44955aea245c8
parentf6d6ad24354ecd2997a48ba51b12e7dc34addd15
man: string: document BM false negatives

For non-linear skb's there's a possibility that the kernel's Boyer-Moore
text-search implementation may miss matches.  There's a warning about
this in the kernel source.  Include that warning in the man-page.

Link: https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1390
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@azazel.net>
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
extensions/libxt_string.man