Re: [PATCH 4/4] netfilter: xtables: remove old comments about reentrancy

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On Tuesday 2010-04-20 14:24, Patrick McHardy wrote:

>Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Also applied, thanks Jan. I'll push everything out after
>> some more intensive testing.
>
>Not using oif was broken due to an incorrect check for a device
>name, there also was a device reference leak. I took the
>opportunity to convert it to notifier based device resolving.
>
>If a oif is given, we register a netdevice notifier to resolve
>the name on NETDEV_REGISTER or NETDEV_CHANGE and unresolve it
>again on NETDEV_UNREGISTER or NETDEV_CHANGE (to a different name).
>The behaviour should be equivalent to the runtime resolving.
>
>Please review, if things are fine I'll commit the patch and
>push everything out.

Seems good to me.

>+		priv = kmalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
>+		if (priv == NULL)
>+			return -ENOMEM;
>+
>+		priv->tginfo  = info;
>+		priv->oif     = -1;
>+		priv->notifier.notifier_call = tee_netdev_event;
>+
>+		register_netdevice_notifier(&priv->notifier);

I take it tee_tg_event gets immediately called after the registration.
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