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From: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@sch•bme.hu>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	fw@strlen•de, jpirko@redhat•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit•hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] netfilter: allow nf_tproxy_core module to be removed
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:56:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C246149.3090603@sch.bme.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C2379D9.2080608@trash.net>

Hi,

On 06/24/2010 05:29 PM, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
>> From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen•de>
>> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:46:11 +0200
>>
>>> tproxy assigns skb->destructor, what prevents module unload while
>>> such skbs may
>>> still be around?
>>
>> The only reference to nf_tproxy_core.ko is for the symbol,
>> "nf_tproxy_assign_sock".
>> xt_TPROXY.c, which references this symbol, thus creates a symbol
>> dependency on this
>> module, so xt_TPROXY.o needs to unload before nf_tproxy_core.ko can
>> unload, and
>> xt_TPROXY.o has it's own manner for handling module references properly.
>
> I don't see anything waiting for skbs in flight using the tproxy
> destructor in either xt_TPROXY or nf_tproxy_core though, so I think
> Florian is correct.

Yes, I think Florian and Patrick's right. Right now there's nothing 
preventing xt_TPROXY and nf_tproxy_core from being removed while there 
are skbs in flight with the tproxy destructor set.

-- 
KOVACS Krisztian

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-25  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-23 18:35 [PATCH net-next-2.6] netfilter: allow nf_tproxy_core module to be removed Jiri Pirko
2010-06-23 18:46 ` Florian Westphal
2010-06-23 18:55   ` David Miller
2010-06-24 15:29     ` Patrick McHardy
2010-06-25  7:56       ` KOVACS Krisztian [this message]
2010-06-29  6:38       ` David Miller

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