From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Neal P. Murphy" Subject: Re: linux 3.4.43 : kernel crash at __nf_conntrack_confirm Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 02:13:34 -0400 Message-ID: <20151026021334.7cc89262@playground> References: <20151018080702.GA14564@breakpoint.cc> <20151021211911.GD31323@breakpoint.cc> <20151022034232.58e5af7a@playground> <20151022223945.660a1838@playground> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from MAIL1.WPI.EDU ([130.215.36.91]:44742 "EHLO MAIL1.WPI.EDU" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752179AbbJZGNi (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Oct 2015 02:13:38 -0400 Received: from MAIL1.WPI.EDU (MAIL1.WPI.EDU [130.215.36.91]) by MAIL1.WPI.EDU (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTP id t9Q6DboX013710 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 02:13:37 -0400 Received: from MX3.WPI.EDU (mx3.wpi.edu [130.215.36.147]) by MAIL1.WPI.EDU (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTP id t9Q6DbTQ013707 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 02:13:37 -0400 Received: from ALUM.WPI.EDU (ALUM.WPI.EDU [130.215.36.126]) by MX3.WPI.EDU (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t9Q6DZQj028689 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 02:13:36 -0400 (envelope-from neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu) Received: from playground (c-71-57-197-109.hsd1.va.comcast.net [71.57.197.109]) (authenticated authen=neal.p.murphy) by ALUM.WPI.EDU (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id t9Q6DZcb014534 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 02:13:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 11:28:55 -0700 Ani Sinha wrote: > I just sent out the patches for approval. Please have a look. The patch seems to have applied cleanly to 3.4.110, and Smoothwall--with 3.4.110--built without trouble. We'll run tests soon enough. Any ideas as to how to test this problem on an SMP system? I can set up a 2- to 6-core VM and have several thousand processes hammer the firewall. Just need a clue as to what triggers the problem. N