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| author | Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> | 2022-01-07 05:03:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2022-01-09 23:30:13 +0100 |
| commit | 6ae7989c9af0d98ab64196f4f4c6f6499454bd23 (patch) | |
| tree | e351c62322a77c4fe66cb8382070fb5d69db0b63 /include/linux/netfilter | |
| parent | 285c8a7a58158cb1805c97ff03875df2ba2ea1fe (diff) | |
netfilter: conntrack: avoid useless indirection during conntrack destruction
nf_ct_put() results in a usesless indirection:
nf_ct_put -> nf_conntrack_put -> nf_conntrack_destroy -> rcu readlock +
indirect call of ct_hooks->destroy().
There are two _put helpers:
nf_ct_put and nf_conntrack_put. The latter is what should be used in
code that MUST NOT cause a linker dependency on the conntrack module
(e.g. calls from core network stack).
Everyone else should call nf_ct_put() instead.
A followup patch will convert a few nf_conntrack_put() calls to
nf_ct_put(), in particular from modules that already have a conntrack
dependency such as act_ct or even nf_conntrack itself.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netfilter')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h b/include/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h index a03f7a80b9ab..2770db2fa080 100644 --- a/include/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h +++ b/include/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ struct nf_conntrack { }; void nf_conntrack_destroy(struct nf_conntrack *nfct); + +/* like nf_ct_put, but without module dependency on nf_conntrack */ static inline void nf_conntrack_put(struct nf_conntrack *nfct) { if (nfct && refcount_dec_and_test(&nfct->use)) |