netdev - Re: [RFC] net: ipv4 -- Introduce ifa limit per net

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20160309211629.GR2207@uranus.lan>
Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:16:29 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, solar@...nwall.com, vvs@...tuozzo.com,
	avagin@...tuozzo.com, xemul@...tuozzo.com, vdavydov@...tuozzo.com,
	khorenko@...tuozzo.com, pablo@...filter.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] net: ipv4 -- Introduce ifa limit per net

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 04:10:38PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > and here we call for NETDEV_DOWN, which then hits masq_device_event
> > and go further to conntrack code.
> 
> Yes that's where the notifier comes from, which happens with or without
> my patch.

Thanks for explanation, Dave! I'll continue on this task tomorrow
tryin to implement optimization you proposed.