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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [NETFILTER 11/39]: conntrack: fix race condition in early_drop
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:39:56 +0200
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Roberto Nibali wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> Not really. We can exceed the limit by a few entries, but its still
>> bounded. The same can happen anyway because only entries in the hash
>> are counted.
> 
> 
> Ok, thanks for your time. We have a similar situation in 2.4 LVS code
> (unpatched for years now) and I was just curious if defects like this
> get addressed in 2.4 kernels nowadays. I reckon so long as noone
> complains, we don't do anything; at least that's how I understood you.

Yes, I don't want to break anything in 2.4 by "fixing" problems noone
is experiencing.