From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cong Wang Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next] netns: add and use net_ns_barrier Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:47:50 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20170530093812.10712-1-fw@strlen.de> <87y3tcj3n7.fsf@xmission.com> <20170601085259.GA6067@breakpoint.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Network Developers To: Florian Westphal Return-path: Received: from mail-wr0-f176.google.com ([209.85.128.176]:36763 "EHLO mail-wr0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752430AbdFLVsM (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:48:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170601085259.GA6067@breakpoint.cc> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 1:52 AM, Florian Westphal wrote: > Joe described it nicely, problem is that after unload we may have > conntracks that still have a nf_conn_help extension attached that > has a pointer to a structure that resided in the (unloaded) module. Why not hold a refcnt for its module?