nf_conntrack allocation issue

Yasuyuki KOZAKAI yasuyuki.kozakai at toshiba.co.jp
Fri Dec 1 05:14:09 CET 2006


From: Patrick McHardy <kaber at trash.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:45:19 +0100

> I've added these three patches to fix the allocation problems.
> I don't want to add the new module option introduced by
> Jozsef's patch since the current situation is just ridiculous,
> we need to search for both helpers and expectations twice for
> every new connection, so this needs to be redesigned anyway.

I agree.

> It seems to work fine in some quick testing. This was the
> last problem I'm aware of, so I'm probably going to push
> all patches soon.
> 
> Last thing is the helper renaming, any objections to prefix
> all helpers with nf_conntrack_helper_?

no objection.

-- Yasuyuki Kozakai



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