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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: "Alin Năstac" <alin.nastac@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [helper PATCH] Preserve conntrack helper bound through CT rule
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:57:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140326165747.GE21741@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF1oqRAg8Xi+JwL_ErzuwF1TFWHCMcV6pGasUfFQ5_RaDNMBOQ@mail.gmail.com>

Alin Năstac <alin.nastac@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> Quite the contrary, the new code would be
>     if (ct->master || help)
>         return;
> This will relax the if statement condition, which will decrease the
> __nf_ct_try_assing_helper() call count.

Right.

> Anyway, I use a Broadcom patched 3.4.11, but I checked the origin of
> the call, it does not originate from their patches, in comes from
> nf_nat_setup_info(ct, &newrange, NF_NAT_MANIP_SRC) call found in
> masquerade_tg().

I guess this was fixed by
commit 6714cf5465d2803a21c6a46c1ea747795a8889fa
'netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix explicit helper attachment and NAT').
in 3.5 kernel.
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-26 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-26 12:34 [helper PATCH] Preserve conntrack helper bound through CT rule Alin Năstac
2014-03-26 13:04 ` Florian Westphal
2014-03-26 13:18   ` Alin Năstac
2014-03-26 16:57     ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2014-03-26 20:59       ` Alin Năstac

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