Re: [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: fix soft lockup when netlink adds new entries

[Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 07:44:23AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Le vendredi 24 f?vrier 2012 ? 02:24 +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso a ?crit :
> > 
> > > BTW, nf_conntrack_alloc allocation can now be GFP_KERNEL.
> > 
> > Without looking at the code, I would say I doubt its doable ;)
> >
> > Input path is run from softirq handler.
> 
> This is ctnetlink, conntracks are always created from user context :)

I'm going to convert the gfp flags to GPP_KERNEL as well.

Best regards,
Jozsef
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