Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 1:52 AM, Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de> wrote:
> > Joe described it nicely, problem is that after unload we may have
> > conntracks that still have a nf_conn_help extension attached that
> > has a pointer to a structure that resided in the (unloaded) module.
> 
> Why not hold a refcnt for its module?

That would work as well.

I'm not sure its nice to disallow rmmod of helper modules if they are
used by a connection however.

Right now you can "rmmod nf_conntrack_foo" at any time and this should
work just fine without first having to flush affected conntracks
manually.
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