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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Joerg Marx <joerg.marx@secunet.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nf_conntrack_core.c: fix for dead connection after flushing conntrack cache
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:56:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF53FA3.2020600@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF102D4.9050304@secunet.com>

Appologies for the delay, I once again had a mail outage :|

Joerg Marx wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] Fix a race in __nf_conntrack_confirm against nf_ct_get_next_corpse()
> 
> This race was triggered by a 'conntrack -F' command running in parallel
> to the insertion of a hash for a new connection.
> Losing this race led to a dead conntrack entry effectively blocking
> traffic for a particular connection until timeout or flushing the conntrack
> hashes again.
> Now the check for an already dying connection is done inside the lock.

Applied, thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-20 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4BE3D31F.6000607@secunet.com>
2010-05-09 22:57 ` [PATCH] nf_conntrack_core.c: fix for dead connection after flushing conntrack cache Pablo Neira Ayuso
2010-05-10 15:23   ` Patrick McHardy
2010-05-10 17:08     ` Joerg Marx
2010-05-14 11:05       ` Patrick McHardy
2010-05-17  8:48         ` Joerg Marx
2010-05-20 13:56           ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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