netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] netfilter: allow nf_tproxy

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:29:29 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	fw@...len.de, jpirko@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@...abit.hu>,
	KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@....bme.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] netfilter: allow nf_tproxy_core module to
 be removed

David Miller wrote:
> From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.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.

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