From: Tobias DiPasquale <codeslinger@gmail.com>
To: Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: double call to ip_conntrack_put() ?
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:22:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <876ef97a050418042210d7779e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <426393C7.1020006@ufomechanic.net>
On 4/18/05, Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net> wrote:
> What I found confusing initially was that "put" in "ip_conntrack_put"
> means "release" or "refcount--" instead of "write" or "store" which
> would have been my first guess.
In the Linux kernel sources, *_get() usually increments a reference
count on an object, and *_put() decrements it. This is a common naming
convention, although I can see how it could be confusing.
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[ Tobias DiPasquale ]
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-18 9:29 double call to ip_conntrack_put() ? Wang Jian
2005-04-18 9:56 ` KOVACS Krisztian
2005-04-18 9:57 ` Tobias DiPasquale
2005-04-18 10:25 ` Wang Jian
2005-04-18 11:02 ` Amin Azez
2005-04-18 11:22 ` Tobias DiPasquale [this message]
2005-04-18 11:22 ` Wang Jian
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