[NETFILTER]: move conntrack helper buffers from BSS to kmalloc()ed memory

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According to DaveM, it is preferrable to have large data structures be
allocated dynamically from the module init() function rather than
putting them as static global variables into BSS.

This patch moves the conntrack helper packet buffers into dynamically
allocated memory.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Harald Welte 2005-08-09 20:19:44 -07:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_amanda.c

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net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_ftp.c

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net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_irc.c

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