linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] [NETFILTER] Misc Cleanups.

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Date:	Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:18:50 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Rami Rosen <ramirose@...il.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] [NETFILTER] Misc Cleanups.

Rami Rosen wrote:
> Hi,
>   - Thanks for your comments; I was not aware that this issues occur
> in other places too; attached here is another patch, fixing where
> applicable in ip6_queue and nfnetlink_queue.
> 
>   1) in net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_queue.c
>     - No need to perform data_len = 0 in the switch command, since data_len
> 	   is initialized to 0 in the beginning of the
> ipq_build_packet_message() method
>     - We can reach nlmsg_failure only from one place; skb is sure to be NULL
> 	     when getting there; since skb is NULL, there is no need to check this fact
> 	     and call kfree_skb().
> 
> 2) in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c:
>     - No need to perform data_len = 0 in the switch command, since data_len
> 	   is initialized to 0 in the beginning of the
> nfqnl_build_packet_message() method
> 
> (Note: here, as opposed to previous patch, nlmsg_failure must check
> skb and free it if it is not NULL, so the call to kfree_skb() is
> needed , so it is not removed)


I've queued this patch and the previous one (without the procfs
bits) as one combined patch for 2.6.27, thanks.

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