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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: add and use nf_hook_slow_list()
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 21:41:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191010194131.GJ25052@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4294ffa-db43-f9ad-2f7f-b33c0f241101@solarflare.com>

Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com> wrote:
> On 09/10/2019 15:30, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > At this time, NF_HOOK_LIST() macro will iterate the list and then call
> > nf_hook() for each skb.
> >
> > This makes it so the entire list is passed into the netfilter core.
> > The advantage is that we only need to fetch the rule blob once per list
> > instead of per-skb.  If no rules are present, the list operations
> > can be elided entirely.
> >
> > NF_HOOK_LIST only supports ipv4 and ipv6, but those are the only
> > callers.
> >
> > Cc: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> > ---
> LGTM (but see below).
> Acked-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>

[..]

> > +     list_for_each_entry_safe(skb, next, head, list) {
> > +             list_del(&skb->list);
> I know this was just copied from the existing code, but I've been getting
> a lot more paranoid lately about skbs escaping with non-NULL ->next
> pointers, since several bugs of that kind have turned up elsewhere.
> So should this maybe be skb_list_del_init()?

Ok, I can make that change and send a v2.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-10 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-09 14:30 [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: add and use nf_hook_slow_list() Florian Westphal
2019-10-10 17:21 ` Edward Cree
2019-10-10 19:41   ` Florian Westphal [this message]

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