Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/38] netns ct: NOTRACK in netns

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:54:16 +0200

[email-masked] wrote:
> Make untracked conntrack per-netns. Compare conntracks with relevant
> untracked one.
> 
> The following code you'll start laughing at this code:
> 
> 	if (ct == ct->ct_net->ct.untracked)
> 		...
> 
> let me remind you that ->ct_net is set in only one place, and never
> overwritten later.
> 
> All of this requires some surgery with headers, otherwise horrible circular
> dependencies. And we lost nf_ct_is_untracked() as function, it became macro.

I think you could avoid this mess by using a struct nf_conntrack
for the untracked conntrack instead of struct nf_conn. It shouldn't
make any difference since its ignored anyways.

> 
>  struct netns_ct {
>  	atomic_t		count;
> @@ -12,5 +13,7 @@ struct netns_ct {
>  	struct hlist_head	*expect_hash;
>  	int			expect_vmalloc;
>  	struct hlist_head	unconfirmed;
> +	/* Fake conntrack entry for untracked connections */
> +	struct nf_conn		untracked;
>  };