Re: Soft lockup on shutdown in nf_ct_iterate_cleanup()

[Chuck Ebbert]

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Thanks, the previous approach doesn't seem to work properly without
> unpleasant event cache hacks. This patch takes a simpler approach
> and keeps the unconfirmed list iteration, but makes sure to make
> forward progress.
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> [NETFILTER]: conntrack: fix {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup endless loops
> 
> Fix {nf,ip}_ct_iterate_cleanup unconfirmed list handling:
> 

Works great: survived three reboots without lockup or warning messages.
And it's a nice simple patch, too...

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