Re: 2.6.25-rc9: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

[Andy Gospodarek]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:18:54PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Bug-Entry    : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10323
> >>>Subject        : panic using bridging on linus kernel 2.6.25-rc6
> >>>Submitter    : Andy Gospodarek <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>Date        : 2008-03-25 11:40 (20 days old)
> >>
> >>This looks like another network-namespace regression.
> >>icmp_send() does:
> >>
> >>       net = rt->u.dst.dev->nd_net;
> >>
> >>The bridge netfilter code attaches a fake dst_entry to the
> >>skb which has dev == NULL when passing it to IPv4 netfilter.
> >>
> >>Pavel, do you have a better ideas for fixing this than
> >>instantiating a dst_entry in br_netfilter.c for every
> >>device (or at least for every namespace)? 
> >
> >The description of the problem was not entirely correct, the
> >bridge-netfilter dst_entry does have a proper device pointer,
> >it points to a dummy net_device structure however that doesn't
> >have a namespace associated with it. This blows up in
> >__ip_route_output_key.
> 
> For now I suggest this fix. Andy, could you please test whether it
> fixes the problem?
> 
> 

I'm guessing it will.  I've been testing my older kernels today and
somehow I'm unable to reproduce the original problem, so I need to
figure out what is different about my config now and before.

I'll definitely post back when I test this, but I wanted to make sure
you guys knew I was at least trying it. :)

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