netdev - Re: debug: nt_conntrack and KVM crash

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Date:	Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:12:40 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: debug: nt_conntrack and KVM crash

Le lundi 01 février 2010 à 11:36 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan a écrit :
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org> wrote:
> > I hacked up a per-namespace version of hashtables (this needs doing
> > anyway, since the global stuff is just waiting to break)
> 
> Which ones? Conntrack hashtables are per-netns.

It seems they are, but this is not a complete work :

1) Global settings (shared by all netns)
2) nf_conntrack_cachep is shared, it should be not shared.
3) nf_conntrack_untracked shared by all netns, it should be local.

nf_conntrack_cleanup_net() can block forever because of this.

while (atomic_read(&nf_conntrack_untracked.ct_general.use) > 1)
	schedule();

...


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