Re: kernel panic with ctnetlink/nfnetlink

[Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>]

pud wrote:
> On Do, 16 Jun 2005, Pablo Neira wrote:
> 
>>Please post the whole oops. Are you doing something with the conntrack
>>tool? Appreaciate a more detailled description, ruleset, etc...
> 
> sorry, i also forgot to mention that
> a) i tried recent 2.6-kernels (2.6.11, 2.6.12-rc[56])
> b) i wasn't using the conntrack tool, because it was my first try,
>     so a cronjob is still parsing /proc/net/ip_conntrack
> c) as long as the machine lives, conntrack tool is working,
>     and not causing the panic while it runs
> 
> i tried some other new modules as well (h323, ipp2p and so on),

That "so on" is rather big.

> but i'm sure it only happens if the kernel is patched with ctnetlink/nfnetlink

Why? Did you run your box *only* with ctnetlink patches applied? All 
that stuff you've mentioned is under development as well. If you patch 
your kernel with tons of experimental stuff is hard to know what's wrong.

> the whole ruleset may be too big for a list, but i can send you pm
> if you like
> 
> here the latest panic:
> 
> 
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

Please, decode this with ksymoops.

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Pablo