tree 5640796c698074105430c1c1bc24df87f4d0a6b4
parent 4ba887790ce2015e8c464809c0be902fb813ad15
author Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> 1183872201 -0700
committer David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> 1184131037 -0700

[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: introduce extension infrastructure

Old space allocator of conntrack had problems about extensibility.
- It required slab cache per combination of extensions.
- It expected what extensions would be assigned, but it was impossible
  to expect that completely, then we allocated bigger memory object than
  really required.
- It needed to search helper twice due to lock issue.

Now basic informations of a connection are stored in 'struct nf_conn'.
And a storage for extension (helper, NAT) is allocated by kmalloc.

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>