netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] IPVS: seq_release

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Message-ID: <4DCFED73.3050904@netfilter.org>
Date:	Sun, 15 May 2011 17:12:51 +0200
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Hans Schillstrom <hans@...illstrom.com>
CC:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@...csson.com>, ja@....bg,
	lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] IPVS: seq_release_net should be used.

On 14/05/11 12:05, Hans Schillstrom wrote:
> On Saturday, May 14, 2011 02:50:26 Simon Horman wrote:
>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:03:20AM +0200, Hans Schillstrom wrote:
>>> Without this patch every access to ip_vs in procfs will increase
>>> the netns count i.e. an unbalanced get_net()/put_net().
>>> (ipvsadm commands also use procfs.)
>>> The result is you can't exit a netns if reading ip_vs_* procfs entries.
>>
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>> we should try and get this into 2.6.39, right?
> 
> Yes, this is a trivial bug fix

I'll pass it to davem.
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