Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932371AbWEHIgY (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 04:36:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932377AbWEHIgY (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 04:36:24 -0400 Received: from server1.secure-linux-server.com ([207.44.172.97]:49621 "EHLO server1.secure-linux-server.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932371AbWEHIgV (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 04:36:21 -0400 Message-ID: <445F02F1.1090604@ufomechanic.net> Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 09:36:01 +0100 From: Amin Azez User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060309) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.comp.security.firewalls.netfilter.devel,gmane.linux.kernel To: "David S. Miller" CC: sfrost@snowman.net, gcoady.lk@gmail.com, laforge@netfilter.org, jesper.juhl@gmail.com, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@kvack.org, Juergen.Kreileder@empolis.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix mem-leak in netfilter References: <20060507093640.GF11191@w.ods.org> <20060508050748.GA11495@w.ods.org> <20060507.224339.48487003.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20060507.224339.48487003.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 25 David S. Miller wrote: > From: Willy Tarreau > Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 07:07:48 +0200 > >> I wonder how such unmaintainable code has been merged in the first >> place. Obviously, Davem has never seen it ! > > Oh I've seen ipt_recent.c, it's one huge pile of trash > that needs to be rewritten. It has all sorts of problems. > > This is well understood on the netfilter-devel list and > I am to understand that someone has taken up the task to > finally rewrite the thing. Is that Juergen.Kreileder@empolis.com ? ...just checking... he seemed to volunteer in December last year but Stephen Frost has been taking recent questions. Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/