Re: [PATCH] fix mem-leak in netfilter

From: Patrick McHardy
Date: Wed May 17 2006 - 03:18:35 EST


David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:26:03 +0200
>
>>OK, updated patch attached. The TTL is now always kept up-to-date.
>
>
> Looks nice.
>
> Is there any reasonable reason to allow ip_pkt_list_tot to ever be
> larger than say 255? If we can accept that limit, we can shrink
> the recent_entry considerably by packing the index and nstamps
> into a single word next to ttl.


My primary goal was full compatibility, I have no idea about real-life
usage though. Maybe Stephen can answer this.
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