netdev - Re: Yet another bridge netfilter crash

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Date:	Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:17:42 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Yet another bridge netfilter crash

On 23.07.2010 17:00, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 04:18:46PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>
>> I think we've already fixed this by commit 8fa9ff6:
>>
> 
>> commit 8fa9ff6849bb86c59cc2ea9faadf3cb2d5223497
>> Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
>> Date:   Tue Dec 15 16:59:59 2009 +0100
>>
>>     netfilter: fix crashes in bridge netfilter caused by fragment jumps
> 
> Thanks for the pointer Patrick.
> 
> Your memory is much better than mine, as I was in that thread too :)
> 
> BTW, do you have any plans on addressing the deeper issue of
> separating the connection tracking as well?

No concrete plans yet, but its something I'm definitely planning
to try at some point.

> There's also the matter of fragments jumping between bridges.

Conntrack zones can be used to avoid that, but that currently needs
manual configuration.
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