Re: [Bug 1764] New: conntrack oops while reading/proc/net/ip_conntrack

From: Christophe Saout
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 05:50:29 EST


Am Sa, den 03.01.2004 schrieb Rusty Russell um 05:29:

> > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1764
> >
> > Summary: conntrack oops while reading /proc/net/ip_conntrack
> > Kernel Version: 2.6.0
> > Status: NEW
> > Severity: high
> > Owner: laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Submitter: christophe@xxxxxxxx
> ...
> > Apparently expect->expectant->helper is NULL in print_expect
> > (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_standalone.c).
>
> Um, Harald, other developers,
>
> Shouldn't list_conntracks do READ_LOCK(&ip_conntrack_expect_tuple_lock) before walking the expect list?
>
> Here's a patch. Does it do anything?

The problem seems to fixed. The machine was stable the last week, before
it crashed at least once a day.

thanks.


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