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From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
Subject: Re: conntrack match and locking
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 14:39:53 +0200
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Hi!

Pablo Neira wrote:

> Actually this is the process, when we read a conntrack from the 
> conntrack table we read_lock the table and increase its refcount (see 
> ip_conntrack_get). We don't lock a conntrack, we lock the table while 
> reading the conntrack/tuples pair.


sorry, see ip_conntrack_find_get! :-)

regards,
Pablo