From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264141AbTLBATq (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 19:19:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264252AbTLBATq (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 19:19:46 -0500 Received: from port-212-202-185-245.reverse.qdsl-home.de ([212.202.185.245]:22693 "EHLO gw.localnet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264141AbTLBATp (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 19:19:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3FCBDABF.6080804@trash.net> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 01:20:15 +0100 From: Patrick McHardy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: James Bourne , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org Subject: Re: [netfilter-core] 2.4.23/others and ip_conntrack causing hangs References: <20031201015604.816D52C06F@lists.samba.org> In-Reply-To: <20031201015604.816D52C06F@lists.samba.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Best regards, Patrick >Hope that clarifies, >Rusty. >-- > Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >