Verdict on deadlocks

Verdict on deadlocks

[Phil Oester]

Just a heads up that my gateways, which used to deadlock every 2-3 days are now
stable, and have been running solidly for 2-3 weeks.  This is on 2.6.7, after
applying two patches.  The first is already included in 2.6.8-rcx, and is
the tcp-option bug described here:

http://www.netfilter.org/security/2004-06-30-2.6-tcpoption.html

The second is Patrick McHardy's FTP locking fix, documented here:

http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004-June/015719.html

Hopefully the FTP locking patch will be forwarded for inclusion in mainline
soon.  Patrick?


Phil Oester

Re: Verdict on deadlocks

[Patrick McHardy]

Phil Oester wrote:
> Just a heads up that my gateways, which used to deadlock every 2-3 days are now
> stable, and have been running solidly for 2-3 weeks.  This is on 2.6.7, after
> applying two patches.  The first is already included in 2.6.8-rcx, and is
> the tcp-option bug described here:
> 
> http://www.netfilter.org/security/2004-06-30-2.6-tcpoption.html
> 
> The second is Patrick McHardy's FTP locking fix, documented here:
> 
> http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004-June/015719.html
> 
> Hopefully the FTP locking patch will be forwarded for inclusion in mainline
> soon.  Patrick?

There are a couple more places with the same problem. I'll prepare a
patch when I have some time, which will most likely be submitted.

Regards
Patrick

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> Phil Oester
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