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[NETFILTER]: nfctnetlink: Don't allow to change helper
authorYasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:10:22 +0000 (14:10 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:10:22 +0000 (14:10 -0700)
commita410683d4b5ef9bf1a0ca53ca17d2dc877d36025
tree3d079e12c57565cf0ecfff4af18f88e9cd1e5f2e
parent76504ddeea70f907fe577f9b7fe93c15eaa338ca
[NETFILTER]: nfctnetlink: Don't allow to change helper

There is no realistic situation to change helper (Who wants IRC helper to
track FTP traffic ?). Moreover, if we want to do that, we need to fix race
issue by nfctnetlink and running helper. That will add overhead to packet
processing. It wouldn't pay. So this rejects the request to change
helper. The requests to add or remove helper are accepted as ever.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c