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author | Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> | 2005-08-09 20:19:44 -0700 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2005-08-29 15:50:57 -0700 |
commit | 2669d63d20683828f673b606915957f3a070602d (patch) | |
tree | 7e8ab15a956035e63b22237ffdd6d0101b391589 /net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_ftp.c | |
parent | bb97d31f5130d677644d9931ef38613d1164ec94 (diff) | |
download | op-kernel-dev-2669d63d20683828f673b606915957f3a070602d.zip op-kernel-dev-2669d63d20683828f673b606915957f3a070602d.tar.gz |
[NETFILTER]: move conntrack helper buffers from BSS to kmalloc()ed memory
According to DaveM, it is preferrable to have large data structures be
allocated dynamically from the module init() function rather than
putting them as static global variables into BSS.
This patch moves the conntrack helper packet buffers into dynamically
allocated memory.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_ftp.c')
-rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_ftp.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_ftp.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_ftp.c index 9658896..3a2627d 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_ftp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_ftp.c @@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("ftp connection tracking helper"); /* This is slow, but it's simple. --RR */ -static char ftp_buffer[65536]; - +static char *ftp_buffer; static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ip_ftp_lock); #define MAX_PORTS 8 @@ -461,6 +460,8 @@ static void fini(void) ports[i]); ip_conntrack_helper_unregister(&ftp[i]); } + + kfree(ftp_buffer); } static int __init init(void) @@ -468,6 +469,10 @@ static int __init init(void) int i, ret; char *tmpname; + ftp_buffer = kmalloc(65536, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!ftp_buffer) + return -ENOMEM; + if (ports_c == 0) ports[ports_c++] = FTP_PORT; |