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    netfilter: conntrack: avoid useless indirection during conntrack destruction · 6ae7989c
    Florian Westphal authored
    nf_ct_put() results in a usesless indirection:
    
    nf_ct_put -> nf_conntrack_put -> nf_conntrack_destroy -> rcu readlock +
    indirect call of ct_hooks->destroy().
    
    There are two _put helpers:
    nf_ct_put and nf_conntrack_put.  The latter is what should be used in
    code that MUST NOT cause a linker dependency on the conntrack module
    (e.g. calls from core network stack).
    
    Everyone else should call nf_ct_put() instead.
    
    A followup patch will convert a few nf_conntrack_put() calls to
    nf_ct_put(), in particular from modules that already have a conntrack
    dependency such as act_ct or even nf_conntrack itself.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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