Re: 2.6.12: connection tracking broken?

[David S. Miller]

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:39:08 +0200

> In 2.6.12 we started dropping the conntrack reference when a packet
> leaves the IP layer. This broke connection tracking on a bridge,
> because bridge-netfilter defers calling some NF_IP_* hooks to the bridge
> layer for locally generated packets going out a bridge, where the
> conntrack reference is no longer available. This patch keeps the
> reference in this case as a temporary solution, long term we will
> remove the defered hook calling. No attempt is made to drop the
> reference in the bridge-code when it is no longer needed, tc actions
> could already have sent the packet anywhere.

Patch applied and pushed to stable@xxxxxxxxxx

Thanks a lot.
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