netdev - Re: unlock iptables in netns

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Date:	Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:16:00 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
CC:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...nvz.org, den@...nvz.org, xemul@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: unlock iptables in netns

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:26:03PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>
>> By the way, is there already work done for conntrack/NAT namespace
>> support? I have this patch that uses marks for something very similar
>> that should be easy to adjust.
> 
> Yes, right now I'm fighting something which looks like double free
> of conntrack during clone(CLONE_NEWNET)/exit test despite none created
> in netns. And unknown to me dimensions of input and output packet codepaths.
> :^)
> 
> Preliminaty details:
> 	struct nf_conn::ct_net which pins netns

 From the VLAN code, I thought namespaces could also be identified
numerically. That would reduce the size increase of struct nf_conn.

> 	netns of expectation is netns of master conntrack by definition
> 	per-netns conntrack hash
> 	per-netns expect hash
> 	per-netns unconfirmed list

That all makes sense.

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