netdev - Re: [PATCH net] netfilter: conntrack: fix reading nf_conntrack

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Date:   Fri, 8 Jan 2021 12:54:55 +0100
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netfilter: conntrack: fix reading
 nf_conntrack_buckets

Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com> wrote:
> The old way of changing the conntrack hashsize runtime was through changing
> the module param via file /sys/module/nf_conntrack/parameters/hashsize. This
> was extended to sysctl change in commit 3183ab8997a4 ("netfilter: conntrack:
> allow increasing bucket size via sysctl too").
> 
> The commit introduced second "user" variable nf_conntrack_htable_size_user
> which shadow actual variable nf_conntrack_htable_size. When hashsize is
> changed via module param this "user" variable isn't updated. This results in
> sysctl net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_buckets shows the wrong value when users
> update via the old way.

Oh, right!

Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>