On 03/30/2011 04:01 AM, David Miller wrote: > From: Rob Landley <rlandley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:29:16 -0500 > >> In the host context a find on /proc completes, but inside an lxc >> container a find on /proc never completes, due to the endless loop in >> the title. (It's not a symlink, it seems to be a cross linked directory.) >> >> This is vanilla 2.6.38, I can attach my .config if you think it'd help. >> (The container's the lxc debian sid template but that's probably not >> relevant.) > > Please CC: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx when a bug might be related to > networking, as is obviously the case here. > > This bug should be fixed by the following patch: > > -------------------- > commit 9d2a8fa96a44ba242de3a6f56acaef7a40a97b97 > Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon Mar 21 18:23:34 2011 -0700 > > net ipv6: Fix duplicate /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh directory entries. > > When I was fixing issues with unregisgtering tables under /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh > by adding a mount point it appears I missed a critical ordering issue, in the > ipv6 initialization. I had not realized that ipv6_sysctl_register is called > at the very end of the ipv6 initialization and in particular after we call > neigh_sysctl_register from ndisc_init. > > "neigh" needs to be initialized in ipv6_static_sysctl_register which is > the first ipv6 table to initialized, and definitely before ndisc_init. > This removes the weirdness of duplicate tables while still providing a > "neigh" mount point which prevents races in sysctl unregistering. > > This was initially reported at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31232 > Reported-by: sunkan@xxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Yes, that fixed it. Pinging the stable guys to make sure this goes in a dot release. Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
