netdev - Re: [PATCH 01/19] netfilter: move nf_conntrack initialize out of pernet operations

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Message-ID: <CAFFEFTXU1Yptqx0x6CjtqXMU+7HYu4F7Hk7u29oPCeghZ9Wc_Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:48:07 +0800
From:	canqun zhang <canqunzhang@...il.com>
To:	Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, pablo@...filter.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] netfilter: move nf_conntrack initialize out of
 pernet operations

ok, I can help you take a test, please send a big patch container this
patchset  to my email.


2012/12/28 Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>:
> On 12/28/12 11:52, canqun zhang wrote:
>> Hi all
>> As discussed above,if the host machine create several linux
>> containers, there will be several  net namespaces.Resources with "nf
>> conntrack" are registered or unregistered on the first net
>> namespace(init_net),But init_net is not unregistered lastly,so
>> cleanuping other net namespaces  will triger painic.
>> If net namespaces are created  with the order of 1,2,...n,they should
>> be cleaned with the order of n,...2,1,so in this case init_net will be
>> unregistered lastly.
>> I fixed it up (see below). I have taken a lot of test!
>>
>
> I thinks this BUG is a netfilter BUG,not a netns BUG.
> Other subsystems implemented netns support don't use init_net to
> do some special works((un)register/(un)set).
>
> In fact,we can't use init_net to do this job well.such as function
> nf_conntrack_clean,we shoud set ip_ct_attach to NULL before any
> netns doing cleanup jobs, and set nf_ct_destroy to NULL after all of
> netns finish these cleanup jobs.
>
> So I think finally we still need this patchset,And this is a regular
> way to fix this problem.
>
> Can you help me to test if the panic bug is fixed by this patchset?
> and then give me your tested-by?
>
> thank you very much!
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