On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Disagree. A significant percentage of the netfilter bugs have been
> SMP only (the whole thing is non-reentrant on UP).
I really doubt it. <looking through the thing> <raised brows>
Well, if you use GFP_ATOMIC for everything... grep...
Erm... AFAICS, you call create_chain() with interrupts disabled
(under write_lock_irq_save()). Unless I'm _very_ mistaken,
kmalloc(..., GFP_KERNEL) is a Bad Thing(tm) in that situation.
And create_chain() leads to it.
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