netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: per netns nf_conntrack

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Message-ID: <b6fcc0a1002040427n221da433n755350b4a41bbf9b@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:27:16 +0200
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...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: [PATCH] netfilter: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote:
> Jon Masters wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 21:09 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:38:09PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
>>>> *). Per namespace cacheing allocation (the cachep bits). We know it's
>>>> still possible for weirdness to happen in the SLAB cache here.
>>> Tiny race, needs reproducer.
>>
>> Maybe. I think it's worth fixing anyway.
>
> Absolutely, I'll also apply Eric's patch with the %p fix for the
> slab name.

This would show kernel pointers in userspace ;-)
So, net->id is required.
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