On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 02:05:59PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> This patch uses a read-write lock to prevent rules from being evicted
> while they're used by child threads.  It also changes the prototypes
> of the various rule lookup functions so that the thread safety
> analysis can be used to ensure that the locking is handled properly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <[email protected]>

I'm a little worried about deadlocks.  There are lots of corner cases
here (eviction, in-band control, fail-open) and I'm concerned that we
don't hit those much in testing.

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
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