From: Aaron Conole <aconole@bytheb.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC nf-next 1/3] netfilter: bridge: add and use br_nf_hook_thresh
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:43:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7t1t3ozyq8.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1466631271-10737-2-git-send-email-aconole@bytheb.org> (Aaron Conole's message of "Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:34:29 -0400")
Aaron Conole <aconole@bytheb.org> writes:
> From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
>
> This replaces the last uses of NF_HOOK_THRESH().
> Followup patch will remove it and rename nf_hook_thresh.
>
> The reason is that inet (non-bridge) netfilter no longer invokes the
> hooks from hooks, so we do no longer need the thresh value to skip hooks
> with a lower priority.
>
> The bridge netfilter however may need to do this. br_nf_hook_thresh is a
> wrapper that is supposed to do this, i.e. only call hooks with a
> priority that exceeds NF_BR_PRI_BRNF.
>
> It's used only in the recursion cases of br_netfilter.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
> ---
I will make sure to fix the address in this patch. Apologies.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-22 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-22 21:34 [RFC nf-next 0/3] Compact netfilter hooks list Aaron Conole
2016-06-22 21:34 ` [RFC nf-next 1/3] netfilter: bridge: add and use br_nf_hook_thresh Aaron Conole
2016-06-22 21:43 ` Aaron Conole [this message]
2016-06-22 21:34 ` [RFC nf-next 2/3] netfilter: call nf_hook_state_init with rcu_read_lock held Aaron Conole
2016-06-22 21:34 ` [RFC nf-next 3/3] netfilter: replace list_head with single linked list Aaron Conole
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