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netfilter: nf_conntrack: add allocation flag to nf_conntrack_alloc
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ctnetlink does not need to allocate the conntrack entries with GFP_ATOMIC
as its code is executed in user context.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Pablo Neira Ayuso authored and David S. Miller committed Jul 8, 2008
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h
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Expand Up @@ -258,7 +258,8 @@ nf_ct_iterate_cleanup(int (*iter)(struct nf_conn *i, void *data), void *data);
extern void nf_conntrack_free(struct nf_conn *ct);
extern struct nf_conn *
nf_conntrack_alloc(const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *orig,
const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *repl);
const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *repl,
gfp_t gfp);

/* It's confirmed if it is, or has been in the hash table. */
static inline int nf_ct_is_confirmed(struct nf_conn *ct)
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7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
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Expand Up @@ -464,7 +464,8 @@ static noinline int early_drop(unsigned int hash)
}

struct nf_conn *nf_conntrack_alloc(const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *orig,
const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *repl)
const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *repl,
gfp_t gfp)
{
struct nf_conn *ct = NULL;

Expand All @@ -489,7 +490,7 @@ struct nf_conn *nf_conntrack_alloc(const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *orig,
}
}

ct = kmem_cache_zalloc(nf_conntrack_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC);
ct = kmem_cache_zalloc(nf_conntrack_cachep, gfp);
if (ct == NULL) {
pr_debug("nf_conntrack_alloc: Can't alloc conntrack.\n");
atomic_dec(&nf_conntrack_count);
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return NULL;
}

ct = nf_conntrack_alloc(tuple, &repl_tuple);
ct = nf_conntrack_alloc(tuple, &repl_tuple, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (ct == NULL || IS_ERR(ct)) {
pr_debug("Can't allocate conntrack.\n");
return (struct nf_conntrack_tuple_hash *)ct;
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
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Expand Up @@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ ctnetlink_create_conntrack(struct nlattr *cda[],
struct nf_conn_help *help;
struct nf_conntrack_helper *helper;

ct = nf_conntrack_alloc(otuple, rtuple);
ct = nf_conntrack_alloc(otuple, rtuple, GFP_KERNEL);
if (ct == NULL || IS_ERR(ct))
return -ENOMEM;

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