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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pass netns to ->match or to not pass
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:43:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49014448.4090405@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081023231611.GA19245@x200.localdomain>

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> xt_recent wants netns inside ->match hook (and xt_hashlimit probably,
> haven't looked closely):
> 
> 	recent_mt
> 	recent_table_lookup
> 	[use per-netns tables list]
> 
> Now, I can drag netns through struct xt_match_param, or use
> dev_net(skb->dev ? skb->dev : skb->dst->dev) trick.
> 
> And the latter should be better, because only xt_recent module will be
> affected.
> 
> Comments?

I prefer the later. Using the supplied device parameters would
be better though to keep the device handling centralized.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24  3:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-23 23:16 pass netns to ->match or to not pass Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-23 23:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-10-23 23:36   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-24  0:23     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-10-24  9:45       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-24 13:31         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-10-24 14:10           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-24 15:06             ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-10-24 16:25               ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-24  3:43 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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