netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/6] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix early

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Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:16:18 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pablo@...filter.org
Cc:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix early_drop with
 reliable event delivery

From: pablo@...filter.org
Date: Tue,  6 Mar 2012 12:22:55 +0100

> From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
> 
> If reliable event delivery is enabled and ctnetlink fails to deliver
> the destroy event in early_drop, the conntrack subsystem cannot
> drop any the candidate flow that was planned to be evicted.
> 
> Reported-by: Kerin Millar <kerframil@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>

Applied.

> +		/* Check if we indeed killed this entry. Reliable event
> +		   delivery may have inserted it into the dying list. */
> +		if (test_bit(IPS_DYING_BIT, &ct->status)) {

Please don't allow misformatted comments like this into your
tree next time, this should be:

		/* Check if we indeed killed this entry. Reliable event
		 * delivery may have inserted it into the dying list.
		 */
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