Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] netfilter: nf_conntrack: use safer way to lock all buckets

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:09:38 +0100

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 07:23:51PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> When we need to lock all buckets in the connection hashtable we'd attempt to
> lock 1024 spinlocks, which is way more preemption levels than supported by
> the kernel. Furthermore, this behavior was hidden by checking if lockdep is
> enabled, and if it was - use only 8 buckets(!).
> 
> Fix this by using a global lock and synchronize all buckets on it when we
> need to lock them all. This is pretty heavyweight, but is only done when we
> need to resize the hashtable, and that doesn't happen often enough (or at all).
> 
> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email-masked]>

Applied, thanks.

I'm including the Reviewed-by tag from Florian in this patch.