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netfilter: xt_connlimit: connlimit-above early loop termination
authorStefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:00:07 +0000 (18:00 +0100)
committerPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:00:07 +0000 (18:00 +0100)
commit44bd4de9c2270b22c3c898310102bc6be9ed2978
treeb14ddafd121b1c1a29580c0278e9cf14667aa96a
parentc16e19c11730199c1df686b160c9c972ad28baf8
netfilter: xt_connlimit: connlimit-above early loop termination

The patch below introduces an early termination of the loop that is
counting matches. It terminates once the counter has exceeded the
threshold provided by the user. There's no point in continuing the loop
afterwards and looking at other entries.

It plays together with the following code further below:

return (connections > info->limit) ^ info->inverse;

where connections is the result of the counted connection, which in turn
is the matches variable in the loop. So once

        -> matches = info->limit + 1
alias   -> matches > info->limit
alias   -> matches > threshold

we can terminate the loop.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c