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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:16:30 +0100
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM with summary: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: per netns
nf_conntrack_cachep
Le mardi 02 février 2010 à 18:04 +0100, Patrick McHardy a écrit :
> Ah nice catch, that seems to be the problem. When the untracked
> conntrack is already attached to an skb and thus has refcnt > 1
> and we re-initalize the refcnt, it will get freed.
>
> The question is whether the ct_net pointer of the untracked conntrack
> is actually required. If so, we need one instance per namespace,
> otherwise we can just move initialization and cleanup to the init_net
> init/cleanup functions. Alexey, do you happen to know this?
>
One untracked per netns seems the way to go, and move it outside of
read_mostly area too, we obviously can modify its refcount frequently...
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