pipapo_match_field(9)

💅 NAME 💅

Okay bestie, welcome to pipapo_match_field(9) from the Kernel API Manual! This one is literally about matching rules against byte ranges. No cap. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool pipapo_match_field (struct nft_pipapo_field *f , int first_rule ,
       int rule_count , const u8 *start , const u8 *end );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• f — the field including the lookup table. Yes, the whole lookup-table situation.
• first_rule — first of associated rules originating from same entry.
• rule_count — amount of associated rules.
• start — start of range to be matched.
• end — end of range to be matched.

💖 RETURN 💖

Returns true on match, false otherwise. That's the whole vibe check, fr fr. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Okay, here's the friend group — every single one, in order:

• Kernel file ./net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c Theory of Operation(9)
• pipapo_refill(9)
• pipapo_get_slow(9)
• pipapo_get(9)
• nft_pipapo_lookup(9)
• nft_pipapo_get(9)
• pipapo_realloc_mt(9)
• lt_calculate_size(9)
• pipapo_resize(9)
• pipapo_bucket_set(9)
• pipapo_lt_4b_to_8b(9)
• pipapo_lt_8b_to_4b(9)
• pipapo_lt_bits_adjust(9)
• pipapo_insert(9)
• pipapo_step_diff(9)
• pipapo_step_after_end(9)
• pipapo_base_sum(9)
• pipapo_expand(9)
• pipapo_map(9)
• pipapo_free_scratch(9)
• pipapo_realloc_scratch(9)
• pipapo_maybe_clone(9)
• nft_pipapo_insert(9)
• pipapo_clone(9)
• pipapo_rules_same_key(9)
• pipapo_unmap(9)
• pipapo_drop(9)
• pipapo_gc_scan(9)
• pipapo_gc_queue(9)
• pipapo_free_fields(9)
• pipapo_reclaim_match(9)
• nft_pipapo_commit(9)
• nft_pipapo_activate(9)
• nft_pipapo_deactivate(9)
• nft_pipapo_flush(9)
• pipapo_get_boundaries(9)
• nft_pipapo_remove(9)
• nft_pipapo_do_walk(9)
• nft_pipapo_walk(9)
• nft_pipapo_privsize(9)
• nft_pipapo_estimate(9)
• nft_pipapo_init(9)
• nft_set_pipapo_match_destroy(9)
• nft_pipapo_destroy(9)
• nft_pipapo_gc_init(9)

Made with 💖 from ./net/netfilter, dated October 2026 — this is pipapo_match_field(9) signing off. 🦋