From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: use RCU safe kfree for conntrack extensions Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:54:38 -0700 Message-ID: <1378922078.21474.5.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <20130911090900.0129AE8AFF@unicorn.suse.cz> <20130911145715.GA2882@linuxace.com> <20130911152804.GA5397@unicorn.suse.cz> <20130911170946.GA2926@linuxace.com> <20130911174248.GA8318@unicorn.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Phil Oester , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Pablo Neira Ayuso , Patrick McHardy , Jozsef Kadlecsik To: Michal Kubecek Return-path: Received: from mail-yh0-f43.google.com ([209.85.213.43]:33350 "EHLO mail-yh0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755481Ab3IKRyp (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:54:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130911174248.GA8318@unicorn.suse.cz> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 19:42 +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote: > Yes, the patch submitted here is against current nf branch. For > SLES 11 SP1 (with 2.6.32 kernel), I'm going to use call_rcu() the way > original commit 68b80f11 does. Well, please just submit a patch for current tree, using kfree_rcu() When doing backport to stable branches, needed adaptation shall be done.