>>>So, the question, as mentioned in the beginning. What context is the >>>hook executing in which causes the code to behave differently from >>>when it executed in the module init method for instance? >> >> module_init either runs as user or kthread context. Your reading >> of files would most likely also fail in the latter. > >I see, then this problem is not really netfilter specific I guess. Nope. You could move your reading to netif_receive_skb and still get the same crash. >If anyone knows of any good online documentation or book regarding >these different contexts I would be grateful for the info. Otherwise I >thank you for the feedback. Chapters 5-8,10,12 of LDD3 (and perhaps more, I did not bother besides a quick grep) talk about it now and again. -- 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
