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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:33:44 +0100 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, Ramblewski David <David.Ramblewski@...sorigin.com>, "netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org" <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: kernel stack trace using conntrack Le vendredi 19 février 2010 à 03:18 +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso a écrit : > Patrick McHardy wrote: > > Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > >> Patrick McHardy wrote: > >>>>> Pablo, please let me know whether you want me to apply this. > >>>> ctnetlink_change_helper() also calls nf_ct_ext_add() for conntracks that > >>>> are confirmed (in case of a helper update for an existing conntrack). > >>>> That would also trigger the assertion. If we want to support helper > >>>> assignation via ctnetlink for existing conntracks, we will need to add > >>>> locking to the conntrack extension infrastructure to avoid races. > >>>> > >>>> I don't see a clear solution for this yet. > >>> I see, this is indeed a problem. Since the helper is known at the > >>> first event, we could restrict this to only allow manual assignment > >>> for newly created conntracks. Most helpers probably can't properly > >>> cope with connections not seen from the beginning anyways. > >> Indeed, changing the helper in the middle of the road doesn't make too > >> much sense to me either. I can send you a patch for this along today, > >> I'll find some spare time to do it. > > > > Great, thanks Pablo. > > I have slightly tested the following patch here. I think it should fix > the problem. > > We can revisit ctnetlink_change_helper() later, I think there's some > code there that can be refactorized. > > Let me know if you're OK with it. I sucessfuly tested your patch Pablo, thanks. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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