Re: debug: nt_conntrack and KVM crash

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Mon Feb 01 2010 - 05:12:50 EST


Le lundi 01 fÃvrier 2010 Ã 11:36 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan a Ãcrit :
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I hacked up a per-namespace version of hashtables (this needs doing
> > anyway, since the global stuff is just waiting to break)
>
> Which ones? Conntrack hashtables are per-netns.

It seems they are, but this is not a complete work :

1) Global settings (shared by all netns)
2) nf_conntrack_cachep is shared, it should be not shared.
3) nf_conntrack_untracked shared by all netns, it should be local.

nf_conntrack_cleanup_net() can block forever because of this.

while (atomic_read(&nf_conntrack_untracked.ct_general.use) > 1)
schedule();

...


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