From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc (Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc [91.216.245.30]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3492F286889; Wed, 28 May 2025 13:10:33 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.216.245.30 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1748437836; cv=none; b=kFO8H+H9oEcmLDv7Gyc0wTfu0AC/c2yju9459Vnu/S47iq4OnON5yfQUGCkbYdtktnhP3WqXSHgxdlSTE3Hz8gxfo4tIEYH5XALVRsbroRIeqfB/+gmxUHsBfGB+o914GKO45xqPD3aP2S4Wyp6a4D+2Al4Yq9Gy2wi9UbP5M28= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1748437836; c=relaxed/simple; bh=5gw9lFZJbt318WQjHz4/WwLts5uGrE1i3Hhu6mIN18M=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=kiqmeUmneWN/zeH3//YcTJ5zFo75ZPN5yq/hcsSjgwJf3qaGRZ+LoKYpBdeAFRkNAJ93SZL3tmK56pQ/eDtC2ARp7k8TJMCNLecCAf46TvQwqk1JJ/RyNx80045mNv2C5HnFohkgd60i/Fl3geA+ovAdw/9amVp5bJ0IrqqP530= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=strlen.de; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=strlen.de; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.216.245.30 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=strlen.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=strlen.de Received: by Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 1E2A86042D; Wed, 28 May 2025 15:10:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 15:09:54 +0200 From: Florian Westphal To: ying chen Cc: pablo@netfilter.org, kadlec@netfilter.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [bug report, linux 6.15-rc4] A large number of connections in the SYN_SENT state caused the nf_conntrack table to be full. Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ying chen wrote: > Hello all, > > I encountered an "nf_conntrack: table full" warning on Linux 6.15-rc4. > Running cat /proc/net/nf_conntrack showed a large number of > connections in the SYN_SENT state. > As is well known, if we attempt to connect to a non-existent port, the > system will respond with an RST and then delete the conntrack entry. > However, when we frequently connect to non-existent ports, the > conntrack entries are not deleted, eventually causing the nf_conntrack > table to fill up. Yes, what do you expect to happen?