Re: [RFC net-next 3/4] openvswitch: Add conntrack action.

[Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>]

Le 15/02/2015 05:47, Joe Stringer a écrit :
> On 14 February 2015 at 11:56, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> wrote:
>> On 02/14/15 at 12:13am, Joe Stringer wrote:
>>
>> [..]
>>
>>> +static bool skb_has_valid_nfct(const struct net *net, u16 zone,
>>> +                            const struct sk_buff *skb)
>>> +{
>>> +     enum ip_conntrack_info ctinfo;
>>> +     struct nf_conn *ct = nf_ct_get(skb, &ctinfo);
>>> +
>>> +     if (!ct)
>>> +             return false;
>>> +     if (!net_eq(net, ct->ct_net))
>>> +             return false;
>>
>> I'm surprised that this is needed. Shouldn't we call skb_scrub_packet()
>> between namespaces and invalidate the ct associated with the skb.
>
> Right, it was more of a general sanity check which is likely unneeded.
> I'm not aware of any particular case that this handles.
I agree with Thomas. If we fall into this case, it's probably a real bug ;-)