netdev - Re: [PATCH nf-next 0/5] netfilter: conntrack related cleanups

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Date:   Sun, 9 Jan 2022 23:32:01 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:     netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next 0/5] netfilter: conntrack related cleanups

On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 05:03:21AM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> This patch series contains cleanups to conntrack and related
> users such as ovs and act_ct.
> 
> First patch converts conntrack reference counting to refcount_t api.
> Second patch gets rid of ip_ct_attach hook, we can use existing
> nf_ct_hook for this.
> 
> Third patch constifies a couple of structures that don't need to be
> writeable.
> 
> Last two patches splits nf_ct_put and nf_conntrack_put.
> These functions still do the same thing, but now only nf_conntrack_put
> uses the nf_ct_hook indirection, nf_ct_put uses a direct call.
> Virtually all places should use nf_ct_put -- only core kernel code
> needs to use the indirection.
> 
> Before this change, nf_ct_put was merely an alias for nf_conntrack_put
> so even conntrack itself did additional indirection.

Series applied, thanks