From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix early_drop with reliable event delivery Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:16:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20120306.151618.683601515842945468.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1331032975-5303-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> <1331032975-5303-7-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: pablo@netfilter.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:39174 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030950Ab2CFURX (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2012 15:17:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1331032975-5303-7-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: pablo@netfilter.org Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 12:22:55 +0100 > From: Pablo Neira Ayuso > > If reliable event delivery is enabled and ctnetlink fails to deliver > the destroy event in early_drop, the conntrack subsystem cannot > drop any the candidate flow that was planned to be evicted. > > Reported-by: Kerin Millar > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Applied. > + /* Check if we indeed killed this entry. Reliable event > + delivery may have inserted it into the dying list. */ > + if (test_bit(IPS_DYING_BIT, &ct->status)) { Please don't allow misformatted comments like this into your tree next time, this should be: /* Check if we indeed killed this entry. Reliable event * delivery may have inserted it into the dying list. */