On Thursday 2008-07-10 00:58, tung tran wrote: >Hi all, >I am writing a kernel module that hooks into netfilter. >netfilter_ops.hook = main_hook; >netfilter_ops.pf = PF_INET; >netfilter_ops.hooknum = NF_IP_PRE_ROUTING; >netfilter_ops.priority = NF_IP_PRI_FIRST; >nf_register_hook(&netfilter_ops); > >In the main_hook function, I needs to put the process to sleep and >will be woken up by another process because the decision to Accept or >Deny a packet depends on a process running in the user space. However, >all sleeping mechanism I tried cause the kernel hang. You cannot sleep in an interrupt handler. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
