From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] netfilter: ctnetlink: deliver events for conntracks changed from userspace
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:57:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49229F89.300@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081118031010.28549.67042.stgit@Decadence>
Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> As for now, the creation and update of conntracks via ctnetlink do not
> propagate an event to userspace. This can result in inconsistent situations
> if several userspace processes modify the connection tracking table by means
> of ctnetlink at the same time. Specifically, using the conntrack command
> line tool and conntrackd at the same time can trigger unconsistencies.
>
> This patch also modifies the event cache infrastructure to pass the
> process PID and the ECHO flag to nfnetlink_send() to report back
> to userspace if the process that triggered the change needs so.
> Based on a suggestion from Patrick McHardy.
Applied, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-18 10:57 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 [this message]
2008-11-18 10:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] netfilter: ctnetlink: helper modules load-on-demand support Patrick McHardy
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