Re: [PATCH] fix mem-leak in netfilter

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Fri May 12 2006 - 07:10:35 EST


On 5/12/06, Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Willy Tarreau <willy@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 07:07:48 +0200
>
>
>>I wonder how such unmaintainable code has been merged in the first
>>place. Obviously, Davem has never seen it !
>
>
> Oh I've seen ipt_recent.c, it's one huge pile of trash
> that needs to be rewritten. It has all sorts of problems.
>
> This is well understood on the netfilter-devel list and
> I am to understand that someone has taken up the task to
> finally rewrite the thing.


I haven't seen any cleanup patches so far, so I think I'm
going to start my nth try at cleaning up this mess.
Unfortunately its even immune to Lindent ..


If you get too fed up with it, let me know, and I'll give it a go as well.

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