From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org>,
Netfilter Development Mailinglist
<netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] [NETFILTER]: Fix invalid module autoloading by splitting iptable_nat
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:26:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4336CFB4.6060806@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050925150755.GK731@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org>
Harald Welte wrote:
> Hi Patrick, Dave,
>
> I think we really need a solution for the last (known) remaining
> dependency problem with 2.6.14. Please see the description
> below. I _think_ the patch is fine, at least I couldn't find any case
> where we could leak anything by splitting the code in two modules.
>
> There's a slight semantic change, though. If the user unloads
> iptable_nat, all existing connections (including their configured NAT
> mappings) will continue to work. Only when ip_nat.ko is unloaded, the
> NAT mappings are evicted from the conntrack table. I like it that way,
> since it's logical.
I agree, its more logical than having the table and the conntrack
part in one module.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-25 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-25 15:07 [PATCH/RFC] [NETFILTER]: Fix invalid module autoloading by splitting iptable_nat Harald Welte
2005-09-25 16:26 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2005-09-25 16:44 ` Harald Welte
2005-09-26 22:25 ` David S. Miller
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