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From: Thomas Heinz <creatix@hipac.org>
Subject: ipt_do_table
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:54:01 +0100
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Hi

Why does ipt_do_table use read_lock_bh instead of read_lock?
The concurrent counter snapshot resp. table modification
operations acquiring the write lock run in process context
and ipt_do_table itself should be reentrant.

What am I missing?


Regards,

Thomas

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