Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Enabling linux kernel jit compiler from dumpcap?
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:50:44 -0700
On Aug 23, 2013, at 3:16 PM, Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Also it's not perfect like BPF VM, check: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/30/384a

Presumably meaning

	https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/30/384

as the link didn't work with the final "a".

> Don't know if such instruction can happen in BPF filter generated by libpcap (Guy?).

I'll give a look at that...

...but bear in mind that what the current release of libpcap, or even the top of the trunk, does now isn't all that it might do in a future release, so even if it doesn't generate them now, it might do so in the future.

> If yes we should not enable in on kernels before it was fixed.

Yes.