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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: Locking in iptables target functions
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:46:11 +0200
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Rennie deGraaf wrote:
> Are interrupts disabled while iptables match and target functions are
> being evaluated?

No.

>  If so, then is there an efficient method to test this?
>  If not, they why does the kernel complain when I attempt to acquire a
> spinlock from within a target function?

Impossible to tell without seeing the error.