Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the ida tree

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:24:26AM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> I see, we have no more lockless API for IDA anymore :-(. In our case,
> we were already protected by the the nfnl_lock mutex, which it was
> sufficient to ensure non-concurrent access to IDA structures.

You're actually the first user for whom this is true.  For every other
user, the requirement to manage their own spinlock was a pain.

> Unless I'm missing anything, the new API forces use to the spinlock
> call with disabled irq for each time we update something from the
> netfilter netlink interface, so that's a no-go for us.

I can't believe that's a serious problem for you, though.  You're calling
sscanf(), this can't possibly be a performance path.