Andrew Vagin <ava...@parallels.com> wrote: > Can we allocate conntrack with zero ct_general.use and increment it at > the first time before inserting the conntrack into the hash table? > When conntrack is allocated it is attached exclusively to one skb. > It must be destroyed with skb, if it has not been confirmed, so we > don't need refcnt on this stage. > > I found only one place, where a reference counter of unconfirmed > conntract can incremented. It's ctnetlink_dump_table().
What about skb_clone, etc? They will also increment the refcnt if a conntrack entry is attached to the skb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
