netdev - Re: [patch 1/1] ctnetlink: compute generic part of event more acurately

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Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:38:13 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Holger Eitzenberger <holger@...zenberger.org>
CC:	pablo@...filter.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] ctnetlink: compute generic part of event more acurately

Holger Eitzenberger wrote:
> On a box with most of the optional Netfilter switches turned off some
> of the NLAs are never send, e. g. secmark, mark or the conntrack
> byte/packet counters.  As a worst case scenario this may possibly
> still lead to ctnetlink skbs being reallocated in netlink_trim()
> later, loosing all the nice effects from the previous patches.
> 
> I try to solve that (at least partly) by correctly #ifdef'ing the
> NLAs in the computation.

Applied, thanks Holger.
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