Re: slab corruption with current -git

From: Aaron Conole
Date: Tue Oct 11 2016 - 10:00:49 EST


Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 04:24:01AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2016 23:57:45 -0400 (EDT)
>>
>> This means that the netns is possibly getting freed up before we
>> unregister the netfilter hooks.
>
> Sounds a bit like the issue discussed here:
>
> https://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=146980917627262&w=2
>
> Could it be (partly) the same race condition?

It looks like it's possible. It appears that there could be a
long-standing race between these. I'll look into it more carefully, and
discuss with Pablo and Florian when they're situated from netdev
conference.

-Aaron