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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: tasklist_lock abuse in ipt{,6}owner
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:29:14 +0200
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Folks, could you please take a look at getting rid of that match_pid
> crap?  We need to get rid of the tasklist_lock export to change the
> locking scheme in that area, and what netfilter does with it is not
> pretty.  I'd actually prefer dropping those modules completely, this
> kind of inverse lookup from file/socket to process shouldn't be done
> anywhere in the kernel.

I think its ok to rip out cmd/sid/pid matching, it is broken and can't
be fixed anyway. Feel free to send a patch, otherwise I'll take care
of it.