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Date:	Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:30:39 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
CC:	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote:
>> Jon Masters wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 21:09 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:38:09PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
>>>>> *). Per namespace cacheing allocation (the cachep bits). We know it's
>>>>> still possible for weirdness to happen in the SLAB cache here.
>>>> Tiny race, needs reproducer.
>>> Maybe. I think it's worth fixing anyway.
>> Absolutely, I'll also apply Eric's patch with the %p fix for the
>> slab name.
> 
> This would show kernel pointers in userspace ;-)
> So, net->id is required.

I don't see the problem. But yes, it would be nicer to have an ID.
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