On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 09:01:29PM +0530, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wrote:

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 08:39:14PM IST, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:

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On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 06:32:28PM +0530, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wrote:
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 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 252 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 7 files changed, 497 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index 770a63103c7a..85042cb6f82e 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c

Please, keep this new code away from net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c

Ok. Can it be a new file under net/netfilter, or should it live elsewhere?

IPVS and OVS use conntrack for already quite a bit of time and they
keep their code in their respective folders.

Thanks.