From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] [PATCH] get rid of module refcounting in ctnetlink
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:26:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EE0685.30308@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081009083339.9824.24056.stgit@Decadence>
Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> This patch replaces the unnecessary module refcounting with
> the read-side locks. With this patch, all the dump and fill_info
> function are called under the RCU read lock.
>
> Based on a patch from Fabian Hugelshofer.
Applied, thanks.
Some of the new rcu_read_locks wouldn't have been necessary though
since some of the paths can only be reached through nf_hook_slow,
which already does rcu_read_lock() (and we're relying on that in
many spots).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 8:33 [PATCH 1/8] [PATCH] get rid of module refcounting in ctnetlink Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-10-09 8:34 ` [PATCH 2/8] [PATCH] connection tracking helper name persistent aliases Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-10-09 13:27 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-09 8:34 ` [PATCH 3/8] [PATCH] Helper modules load-on-demand support for ctnetlink Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-10-09 13:34 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-09 13:43 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-09 14:50 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-10-09 16:11 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-09 16:43 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-10-09 8:34 ` [PATCH 4/8] [PATCH] use EOPNOTSUPP instead of EINVAL if the conntrack has no helper Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-10-10 13:03 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-09 8:35 ` [PATCH 5/8] [PATCH] deliver events for conntracks created via ctnetlink Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-10-10 13:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-11 12:05 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-10-11 14:53 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-09 8:35 ` [PATCH 6/8] [PATCH] bump the expectation helper name Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-10-09 8:35 ` [PATCH 7/8] [PATCH] dynamic calculation of event message size for ctnetlink Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-10-09 16:45 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-10-09 8:36 ` [PATCH 8/8] [PATCH] remove module dependency between ctnetlink and nf_nat Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-10-09 13:26 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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