From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: netfilter: xtables: avoid pointer to self
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:36:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BE63D6.1090306@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0903031806350.8887@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> (There is a 2nd patch as reply, could you please fold that.)
>
> ---8<---
> netfilter: xtables: avoid pointer to self
>
> Commit 784544739a25c30637397ace5489eeb6e15d7d49 (netfilter: iptables:
> lock free counters) broke a number of modules whose rule data referenced
> itself. A reallocation would not reestablish the correct references, so
> it is best to use a separate struct that does not fall under RCU.
Applied, including the second patch. Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-16 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 17:09 netfilter: xtables: avoid pointer to self Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-03 17:09 ` netfilter: xtables: avoid pointer to self (2) Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-16 14:36 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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