From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netfilter: conntrack: fix reading nf_conntrack_buckets
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 12:54:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210108115455.GC19605@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <161010627346.3858336.14321264288771872662.stgit@firesoul>
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> wrote:
> The old way of changing the conntrack hashsize runtime was through changing
> the module param via file /sys/module/nf_conntrack/parameters/hashsize. This
> was extended to sysctl change in commit 3183ab8997a4 ("netfilter: conntrack:
> allow increasing bucket size via sysctl too").
>
> The commit introduced second "user" variable nf_conntrack_htable_size_user
> which shadow actual variable nf_conntrack_htable_size. When hashsize is
> changed via module param this "user" variable isn't updated. This results in
> sysctl net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_buckets shows the wrong value when users
> update via the old way.
Oh, right!
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-08 11:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-08 11:44 [PATCH net] netfilter: conntrack: fix reading nf_conntrack_buckets Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2021-01-08 11:54 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2021-01-10 8:39 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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