From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] netfilter: ctnetlink: helper modules load-on-demand support
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:54:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49229EF9.4030402@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081118030948.28549.30226.stgit@Decadence>
Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> This patch adds module loading for helpers via ctnetlink.
>
> * Creation path: We support explicit and implicit helper assignation. For
> the explicit case, we try to load the module. If the module is correctly
> loaded and the helper is present, we return EAGAIN to re-start the
> creation. Otherwise, we return EOPNOTSUPP.
> * Update path: release the spin lock, load the module and check. If it is
> present, then return EAGAIN to re-start the update.
>
> This patch provides a refactorized function to lookup-and-set the
> connection tracking helper. The function removes the exported symbol
> __nf_ct_helper_find as it has not clients anymore.
Applied, thanks Pablo.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-18 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-18 3:09 [PATCH 1/2] netfilter: ctnetlink: helper modules load-on-demand support Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-11-18 3:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: ctnetlink: deliver events for conntracks changed from userspace Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-11-18 10:57 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-11-18 10:54 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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