From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
caiqian@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [BUG] Fatal exception in interrupt - nf_nat_cleanup_conntrack during IPv6 tests
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:34:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130411093452.GA22909@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130410145729.GC23626@macbook.localnet>
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
> > > > Looks like it, nf_nat_ipv4 is listed as F- in the oops trace. (afaics,
> > > > "-" means "module going away").
> > >
> > > Yes, that seems like a real race condition. We probably could extend the
> > > nf_nat_lock sections to avoid this, but I wonder wether we should just kill
> > > those conntracks, the connections are not going to work after being
> > > "de-nated" anymore anyway.
> >
> > I like it, just killing them would make it a lot more simple.
> >
> > The clear-nat-extension-on-module-unload dance is getting out of hand,
> > and, as you point out, the connections are not going to work anyway...
>
> Yeah, lets just do that. Do you want to take care of this?
I can look into it, sure.
However, i missed one important point: non-NAT'd connections
have a null binding, and there doesn't seem to be a way to differentiate
between real vs. null binding.
Simply returning 1 for conntracks-with-nat-extension will zap every
connection.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-11 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-10 9:04 Fwd: Re: [BUG] Fatal exception in interrupt - nf_nat_cleanup_conntrack during IPv6 tests Florian Westphal
2013-04-10 9:23 ` Patrick McHardy
2013-04-10 9:32 ` Florian Westphal
2013-04-10 9:41 ` Patrick McHardy
2013-04-10 14:56 ` Florian Westphal
2013-04-10 14:57 ` Patrick McHardy
2013-04-11 9:34 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2013-04-11 10:40 ` Patrick McHardy
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