Re: [PATCH 3/3] nfnetlink_queue: use hash table to speed up entry finding.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>
>> That should be easily fixable. For the lookup we can add a reference
>> counter so we don't need the rcu read side critical section.
>
> Actually we don't even need that, since we're holding nfnl_mutex the
> instance can't go away.
>

I don't think so. a netlink queue instance maybe destroyed by
nfqnl_rcv_nl_event(). And the function is called by netlink directly
without nfnl_mutex.

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