From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: kaber@trash.net
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [NETFILTER 00/22]: Netfilter update/fixes
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:17:25 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070212.111725.74748844.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070212103621.661.65165.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:36:21 +0100 (MET)
> Hi Dave,
>
> following are a number of fixes for netfilter, fixing RCU issues all over the
> place, including the invalid preemption assumptions in the NF_CT_STAT_INC macro.
> Additionally there are a few minor enhancements for things I noticed while going
> over the code: replacement of a few unnecessary spinlocks by mutexes, some
> cleanup for nf_log.c and some return value cleanup for unregistration functions.
>
> With these patches I think there should be nothing left holding back the
> preemptable RCU merge from netfilter's perspective.
>
> Please apply, thanks.
Thanks a lot for doing this work Patrick.
All applied, thanks again.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-12 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-12 10:36 [NETFILTER 00/22]: Netfilter update/fixes Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 01/22]: Properly use RCU in nf_ct_attach Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 02/22]: Remove unnecessary synchronize_net() in nf_register_hook Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 03/22]: Switch nf_register_afinfo/nf_unregister_afinfo to mutex Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 04/22]: Switch nf_register_hook/nf_unregister_hook " Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 05/22]: nf_log: use rcu_assign_pointer for RCU protected pointer Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 06/22]: nf_log: make nf_log_unregister_pf return void Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 07/22]: nf_log: switch logger registration/unregistration to mutex Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 08/22]: nf_log: minor cleanups Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 09/22]: ip_nat: properly use RCU API for ip_nat_protos array Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 10/22]: nf_nat: properly use RCU API for nf_nat_protos array Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 11/22]: ip_conntrack: properly use RCU API for ip_ct_protos array Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 12/22]: nf_conntrack: properly use RCU API for nf_ct_protos/nf_ct_l3protos arrays Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 13/22]: ip_conntrack: fix invalid conntrack statistics RCU assumption Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 14/22]: nf_conntrack: " Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 15/22]: ip_conntrack: properly use RCU for ip_conntrack_destroyed callback Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 16/22]: nf_conntrack: properly use RCU for nf_conntrack_destroyed callback Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 17/22]: nf_conntrack: change nf_conntrack_l[34]proto_unregister to void Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 18/22]: xt_mac/xt_CLASSIFY: use IPv6 hook names for IPv6 registration Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 19/22]: Kconfig: improve dependency handling Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 20/22]: Fix whitespace errors Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 21/22]: ip6t_mh: drop piggyback payload packet on MH packets Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 10:36 ` [NETFILTER 22/22]: nf_conntrack_tcp: make sysctl variables static Patrick McHardy
2007-02-12 19:17 ` David Miller [this message]
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