From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
den@openvz.org, xemul@openvz.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
benjamin.thery@bull.net, dlezcano@fr.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/25] netns ct: actualy enable in netns
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:49:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <485F7FBC.9040302@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080622011108.GM5392@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>
Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> Known to not work/broken:
> 1) event cache -- double free if netns flushes event cache, not netns-ready,
> haven't looked into this.
The event cache also needs to be per namespace, its not allowed to
be flushed it while connection tracking is still active.
> 2) NOTRACK -- amazing circular dependencies and compile breakages if nf_conn
> is embedded into netns_ct.
>
> This is easy excuse, real excuse is from where to grab netns that early.
> and since we wait until untracked refcount drops to zero it should be per-netns
> otherwise one netns which uses NOTRACK can prevent other from stopping.
Yes. For untracked connections we usually return before doing
any real work, so maybe you don't need a valid netns pointer
for the untrack conntrack entry?
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2008-06-22 1:11 [PATCH 12/25] netns ct: actualy enable in netns Alexey Dobriyan
2008-06-23 10:49 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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