From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:05:42 +1000
> Patrick McHardy <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The bridge-netfilter code defers calling of some NF_IP_* hooks to the
> > bridge layer, when the conntrack reference is already gone, so the entry
>
> Why does it defer them at all? Shouldn't the fact that the device is
> bridged be transparent to the IP layer?
The bridge netfilter layer uses netif_rx(skb) at the deepest level in
order to avoid too deep stack usage.
This is also why the NF_HOOK*() macros were semantically changed
a little bit several months ago.
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