From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932316AbWEHFni (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 01:43:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932319AbWEHFni (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 01:43:38 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:61339 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932316AbWEHFnh (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 01:43:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 22:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20060507.224339.48487003.davem@davemloft.net> To: willy@w.ods.org Cc: gcoady.lk@gmail.com, sfrost@snowman.net, laforge@netfilter.org, jesper.juhl@gmail.com, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix mem-leak in netfilter From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20060508050748.GA11495@w.ods.org> References: <20060507093640.GF11191@w.ods.org> <20060508050748.GA11495@w.ods.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.53 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Willy Tarreau Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 07:07:48 +0200 > I wonder how such unmaintainable code has been merged in the first > place. Obviously, Davem has never seen it ! Oh I've seen ipt_recent.c, it's one huge pile of trash that needs to be rewritten. It has all sorts of problems. This is well understood on the netfilter-devel list and I am to understand that someone has taken up the task to finally rewrite the thing.