On 02/10/2012 19:17, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
We used to have notifier call chains to deliver in-kernel nofitications to events. However, since it was overkill for just one single client (ctnetlink), we removed it and use a single hook function. The workaround is to dig into the history, find that code and forward port it. But I have to warn you that I won't take that patch into mainstream since there's only one single client in the official Linux kernel code, and external clients like that ndpi thing do not justify such change. Sorry.
Understood. I have temporarily hacked in a crude second notifier variable, just about to test it.
However, it seems like a common requirement to want to be able to do some housekeeping in netfilter modules - what am I missing, how are other modules doing stuff like this? Is there another technique which might be used? Any other modules which do something similar that I could crib from, ie with some internal state augmenting a flow and then needing to cleanup sometime after the flow has gone away?
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