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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8][CTNETLINK] Fix race condition on conntrack creation
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:19:04 +0200
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Amin Azez wrote:
> * Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote, On 31/07/06 12:15:
> 
> I find it difficult to be comfortable with dropping some features of
> this patch. In this fragment, the second chunk does what looks like an
> important re-ordering of locking and conntrack creation; i.e. of course
> the lock is retained till after conntrack creation.
> 
> So I don't think it is safe to entirely drop this patch; Pablo?

I'll drop and and see which of the other ones still make sense.