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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@163.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: ctnetlink: remove unnecessary nf_conntrack_expect_lock protection
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 23:16:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170408211615.GB5301@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1491056064-19687-1-git-send-email-zlpnobody@163.com>

On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 10:14:24PM +0800, Liping Zhang wrote:
> @@ -1960,9 +1955,7 @@ static int ctnetlink_new_conntrack(struct net *net, struct sock *ctnl,
>  	err = -EEXIST;
>  	ct = nf_ct_tuplehash_to_ctrack(h);
>  	if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_EXCL)) {
> -		spin_lock_bh(&nf_conntrack_expect_lock);
>  		err = ctnetlink_change_conntrack(ct, cda);
> -		spin_unlock_bh(&nf_conntrack_expect_lock);

We used to have a central spinlock here.

        spin_lock_bh(&nf_conntrack_lock);

that was removed time ago, so this go converted to use
nf_conntrack_expect_lock.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-08 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-01 14:14 [PATCH nf] netfilter: ctnetlink: remove unnecessary nf_conntrack_expect_lock protection Liping Zhang
2017-04-08 21:16 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2017-04-09  4:21   ` Liping Zhang
2017-04-10 12:02     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-04-10 13:53       ` Liping Zhang
2017-04-13 22:03         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-04-13 21:52 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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