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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix early_drop with reliable event delivery
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:19:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307131920.GA6499@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120306.151618.683601515842945468.davem@davemloft.net>

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 03:16:18PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: pablo@netfilter.org
> Date: Tue,  6 Mar 2012 12:22:55 +0100
> 
> > From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> > 
> > If reliable event delivery is enabled and ctnetlink fails to deliver
> > the destroy event in early_drop, the conntrack subsystem cannot
> > drop any the candidate flow that was planned to be evicted.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Kerin Millar <kerframil@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> 
> Applied.
> 
> > +		/* Check if we indeed killed this entry. Reliable event
> > +		   delivery may have inserted it into the dying list. */
> > +		if (test_bit(IPS_DYING_BIT, &ct->status)) {
> 
> Please don't allow misformatted comments like this into your
> tree next time, this should be:
> 
> 		/* Check if we indeed killed this entry. Reliable event
> 		 * delivery may have inserted it into the dying list.
> 		 */

Thanks for spotting this.

Will in the future (probably some patches that I took for net-next
may not follow this format either, but for upcoming patches I will).

      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-07 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-06 11:22 [PATCH 0/6] netfilter fixes for 3.3-rc6 pablo
2012-03-06 11:22 ` [PATCH 1/6] netfilter: ebtables: fix wrong name length while copying to user-space pablo
2012-03-06 20:15   ` David Miller
2012-03-06 11:22 ` [PATCH 2/6] netfilter: ctnetlink: remove incorrect spin_[un]lock_bh on NAT module autoload pablo
2012-03-06 20:15   ` David Miller
2012-03-06 11:22 ` [PATCH 3/6] netfilter: ctnetlink: use GFP_ATOMIC in all allocations pablo
2012-03-06 12:50   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-06 14:48     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-03-06 15:09       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-06 15:35         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-03-06 20:20       ` David Miller
2012-03-06 11:22 ` [PATCH 4/6] netfilter: bridge: fix wrong pointer dereference pablo
2012-03-06 20:15   ` David Miller
2012-03-06 11:22 ` [PATCH 5/6] bridge: netfilter: don't call iptables on vlan packets if sysctl is off pablo
2012-03-06 20:15   ` David Miller
2012-03-06 11:22 ` [PATCH 6/6] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix early_drop with reliable event delivery pablo
2012-03-06 20:16   ` David Miller
2012-03-07 13:19     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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