Re: registering/unregistering hook functions

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Hi Amit,

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:01:22PM +0530, aksingh@xxxxxxxxxxx told us:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   In my module I do not want my hook functions to start capturing packets
> when it is inserted using insmod(i.e i do not want my hook registration
> functions to be called in init_module(). I want to register them when
> someone writes onto my char device, so then I cannot unregister my hook
> functions in the cleanup_module() because I do not know if they are
> registered or not in the first place.
> 
>    So my question is, is there a way to find out before calling the
>    unregister functions in cleanup_module whether or not they are
>    registered. Something like this in the cleanup module :
>    cleanup_module()
>       if (registered(nfho1)) unregister(nfho1) ;
> 

I don't know if there's a function to find out if a particular function
is registered with the netfilter hooks. But the simplest method to
accomplish what you want would be to have a variable in your module
which is initialized to 0 and when you register set it to 1. Then, in
your cleanup_module(), only unregister iff the variable is set to 1.
Don't know if there's a better way to do it.


HTH

Sven

> ??
> 
> thanks
> Amit

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