From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261294AbTLBG6u (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 01:58:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261332AbTLBG6u (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 01:58:50 -0500 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:22488 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261294AbTLBG6t (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 01:58:49 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Patrick McHardy Cc: James Bourne , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org Subject: Re: [netfilter-core] 2.4.23/others and ip_conntrack causing hangs In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Dec 2003 01:20:15 BST." <3FCBDABF.6080804@trash.net> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:33:26 +1100 Message-Id: <20031202065849.779362C085@lists.samba.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In message <3FCBDABF.6080804@trash.net> you write: > Rusty Russell wrote: > > >Unfortunately, some packets are still referencing connections, so the > >module *cannot* go away. Figuring out exactly where the packets are > >referenced from is the fun part. We explicitly drop the reference in > >ip_local_deliver_finish() for exactly this reason. Perhaps there is > >somewhere else we should be doing the same thing. > > > > > Perhaps in dev_queue_xmit ? Otherwise packets stuck in queues hold > references to conntracks. Loopback traffic might cause some trouble > because the "previously seen?" expection in ip_conntrack_core wouldn't > work anymore. But I wouldn't expect packets there to be held indefinitely, so I never worried about it. Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.