Re: Shouldn't we be using alloc_skb/kfree_skb in net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_recent.c::ip_recent_ctrl ?

["David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:36:04 +0200 (CEST)

> I was just grep'ing through the source looking for places where skb's 
> might be freed by plain kfree() and, amongst other things, I noticed 
> net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_recent.c::ip_recent_ctrl, where a struct sk_buff* 
> is defined and then storage for it is allocated with kmalloc() and freed 
> with kfree(), and I'm wondering if we shouldn't be using 
> alloc_skb/kfree_skb instead (as pr the patch below)? Or is there some good 
> reason for doing it the way it's currently done?

It's using it to send a dummy packet to the patch function.
It is gross, but it does work because it allocated it's own
private data area to skb->nh.iph.

Just leave it alone for now, ipt_recent is gross and full of many
errors and bug, and thus stands to have a rewrite. Patrick McHardy
said he will try to do that.