On 24 April 2017 at 19:09, Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]> wrote:
> Linux 4.7 changed nf_connlabels_replace() to trigger conntrack event
> for a label change only when the labels actually changed. Without
> this change an update event is triggered even if the labels already
> have the values they are being set to.
>
> There is no way we can detect this functional change from Linux
> headers, so provide replacements that work the same for older Linux
> releases regardless if a distribution provides backports or not.
>
> VMware-BZ: #1837218
> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <[email protected]>
> ---
I assume that by "Linux 4.7", you're actually referring to the following commit?
5a8145f7b222 ("netfilter: labels: don't emit ct event if labels were
not changed")
It might be helpful for future reference (including review) to refer
to this commit in the code comment below.
Otherwise LGTM.
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <[email protected]>
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