Re: [PATCH] netfilter: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep

Jon Masters
2010-02-02T18:34:36Z

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 13:16 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 19:58 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
> > Yes, moving to init_net-only function is fine.
>
> So moving the "setup up fake conntrack" bits to init_init_net from
> init_net still results in the panic, which means that the use count
> really is dropping to zero and we really are trying to free it when
> using multiple namespaces. Per ns is probably an easier way to go.
>
> Just for kicks, I'll have it error out on attempting to free to see if I
> can get this box to stay up for a while.

Confirmed. It boots and the hashsize is not inadvertedly corrupted if I
do the following:

void nf_conntrack_destroy(struct nf_conntrack *nfct)
{
void (*destroy)(struct nf_conntrack *);

if ((struct nf_conn *)nfct == &nf_conntrack_untracked) {
printk("JCM: nf_conntrack_destroy: trying to destroy
nf_conntrack_untracked! CONTINUING...\n");
//panic("JCM: nf_conntrack_destroy: trying to destroy
nf_conntrack_untracked!\n");
return; /* refuse to free nf_conntrack_untracked */
}

rcu_read_lock();
destroy = rcu_dereference(nf_ct_destroy);
BUG_ON(destroy == NULL);
destroy(nfct);
rcu_read_unlock();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nf_conntrack_destroy);

Clearly that's just a hack (though catching the specific attempt to free
the untracked conntrack sounds like a very good idea in general). I will
leave this running for a while, but so far no problems:

[jcm@perihelion jcm_26]$ dmesg|grep JCM
[ 29.952717] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 30.207091] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 30.403248] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 31.403319] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 32.977106] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 33.347100] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 33.966092] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 34.967111] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 35.404323] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 35.911430] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 35.912442] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 38.967061] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 39.403342] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 41.288392] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 42.966063] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 44.036451] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 95.621174] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 95.673061] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 95.741180] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 96.273429] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 96.741296] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 97.246108] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 98.246486] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 100.747170] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 102.252067] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 104.747066] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 105.762433] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 106.252084] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 147.260998] JCM: nf_conntrack_destroy: trying to destroy
nf_conntrack_untracked! CONTINUING...
[ 155.485160] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 156.403661] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 157.402928] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 161.402477] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 163.270622] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 163.277368] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 167.718677] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 176.901877] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 182.554024] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 182.616693] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 183.616932] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 187.617026] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 188.362002] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 191.617001] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 193.574899] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 197.455338] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 214.163491] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 214.311528] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 215.311577] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 219.317496] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 220.693493] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 223.317095] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 240.326198] JCM: nf_conntrack_destroy: trying to destroy
nf_conntrack_untracked! CONTINUING...
[ 252.481116] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 252.881087] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 253.881251] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 257.922816] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 258.882989] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 261.413093] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 261.921943] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.
[ 266.350983] JCM: icmpv6_error: attaching to nf_conntrack_untracked.

So, over to you :)

Jon.