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authorPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2009-06-03 10:32:06 +0200
committerpablo <pablo@1984.(none)>2009-06-03 10:32:06 +0200
commite34d5c1a4f9919a81b4ea4591d7383245f35cb8e (patch)
tree0a19bfe3e162b2b8de9b9414dcc2bef0a07e7133 /include/linux/netfilter
parentnetfilter: conntrack: simplify event caching system (diff)
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netfilter: conntrack: replace notify chain by function pointer
This patch removes the notify chain infrastructure and replace it by a simple function pointer. This issue has been mentioned in the mailing list several times: the use of the notify chain adds too much overhead for something that is only used by ctnetlink. This patch also changes nfnetlink_send(). It seems that gfp_any() returns GFP_KERNEL for user-context request, like those via ctnetlink, inside the RCU read-side section which is not valid. Using GFP_KERNEL is also evil since netlink may schedule(), this leads to "scheduling while atomic" bug reports. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netfilter')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink.h b/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink.h
index c600083cbdf5..2214e5161461 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink.h
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ extern int nfnetlink_subsys_unregister(const struct nfnetlink_subsystem *n);
extern int nfnetlink_has_listeners(unsigned int group);
extern int nfnetlink_send(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, unsigned group,
- int echo);
+ int echo, gfp_t flags);
extern void nfnetlink_set_err(u32 pid, u32 group, int error);
extern int nfnetlink_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb, u_int32_t pid, int flags);