From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org,
coreteam@netfilter.org,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux 3.4.43 : kernel crash at __nf_conntrack_confirm
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 23:19:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151021211911.GD31323@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOxq_8P9Qgy5+qWNCHtbG8qJwfdKSO3ZiDWoQW_6BVS-+hcTRA@mail.gmail.com>
Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com> wrote:
> >> > commit c6825c0976fa7893692e0e43b09740b419b23c09
> >> > Author: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
> >> > Date: Wed Jan 29 19:34:14 2014 +0100
> >> > netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix RCU race in nf_conntrack_find_get
> >> >
> >> > and a followup patch :
> >> >
> >> > commit e53376bef2cd97d3e3f61fdc677fb8da7d03d0da
> >> > Author: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> >> > Date: Mon Feb 3 20:01:53 2014 +0100
> >> > netfilter: nf_conntrack: don't release a conntrack with non-zero refcnt
> >> >
> >
> > These for instance fix such bugs.
>
> So since both these patches were not backported to 3.4 series and
> since now we have evidence of a crash that points to issues which the
> patches fix, should we consider backporting the above patches to 3.4?
Yes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-21 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-07 19:57 linux 3.4.43 : kernel crash at __nf_conntrack_confirm Ani Sinha
2015-10-18 2:34 ` Ani Sinha
2015-10-18 8:07 ` Florian Westphal
[not found] ` <CAOxq_8NLLFyNCSDJ68+VjxFGpNSex8ShdhGFNBHK29g_+UBW6g@mail.gmail.com>
2015-10-18 21:12 ` Ani Sinha
2015-10-18 21:40 ` Florian Westphal
2015-10-19 20:22 ` Ani Sinha
2015-10-19 20:33 ` Florian Westphal
2015-10-19 22:13 ` Ani Sinha
2015-10-21 19:35 ` Ani Sinha
2015-10-21 21:19 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2015-10-21 21:26 ` Ani Sinha
2015-10-22 7:42 ` Neal P. Murphy
2015-10-22 19:53 ` Ani Sinha
2015-10-23 2:39 ` Neal P. Murphy
2015-10-24 18:28 ` Ani Sinha
2015-10-26 6:13 ` Neal P. Murphy
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