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From: "Łukasz Stosik" <litestep@o2.pl>
To: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Sharing information for many rules using same module
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:54:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ed0182d.25662f4f.46cafca9.d1786@o2.pl> (raw)

Hi.
I am working on simple netfilter match extension. It takes packet, analyzes it, and puts all info in structure. Then it looks at fields in matchinfo and decides if there is a match or not. 
The problem is there will be probably many rules, and each time module will repeat the first part of process- where it would be enought to use same structure as in first rule. Is there any way to share info between rules? 
I would also like to know if netfilter is processing packetss in pararell - or maybe i can be sure that until packet gets dropped or reaches NIC driver, netfilter wont start to process another one - that would solve my problem as i could simply keep that info inside matching module.
And BTW something offtopic - what is ( is there any) a good way to access userspace memory ( for example some process gets information from databases, and i need that data inside kernel ) from kernel module ?

             reply	other threads:[~2007-08-21 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-21 14:54 Łukasz Stosik [this message]
2007-08-21 15:15 ` Sharing information for many rules using same module Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-31 10:39   ` Amin Azez

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