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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking issue in alter_reply
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 16:29:26 +0200
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Hi Pablo,

Pablo Neira wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This the first of a set of patches. Actually this patch is a resend, I 
> think that it got lost. Actually, we don't need to write lock the 
> conntrack table because we always call alter_reply with a 
> non-confirmed conntrack.

Harald suggested to concentrate our efforts on nf_conntrack and
only continue to put bugfixes in ip_conntrack, and I agree with him.
This patch is fairly small, but I'll let him decide.

Regards
Patrick