netdev - Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: use RCU safe kfree for conntrack extensions

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Date:	Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:54:38 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:	Phil Oester <kernel@...uxace.com>, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: use RCU safe kfree for conntrack
 extensions

On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 19:42 +0200, Michal Kubecek wrote:

> Yes, the patch submitted here is against current nf branch. For
> SLES 11 SP1 (with 2.6.32 kernel), I'm going to use call_rcu() the way
> original commit 68b80f11 does. 

Well, please just submit a patch for current tree, using kfree_rcu()

When doing backport to stable branches, needed adaptation shall be done.


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