[Question] netfilter, xt_target->target and xt_target->checkentry locks

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Hi Patrick.

Once module registers it's struct xt_target by xt_register_target and ->target
and ->checkentry funtions are called later, is there any lock guaranteed to be
held?

>From what I see for ->target it looks like rcu_read_lock is held, but I'm not
sure for all paths. There would be nice to put a comment into struct xt_target
definition regarding locks.

Asking because I found several places where dev->br_port is referenced directly
(without rcu_dereference).

Thanks a lot.

Jirka
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