Hello I have a problem with ip_vs_conn_flush() and expiring timers ... After a couple of hours checking locks, I'm still not closer to a solution Conntrack differs a bit between 2.6.32 vs .2.6.39 but I don't think that's the reason in this case. I think the netns cleanup cased this, but I'm not a conntrack expert :) The dump below is from a back-ported ipvs to 2.6.32.27 The extra patches that renamed the cleanup patches is there that I sent to Simon i.e __ip_vs_conn_cleanup renamed to ip_vs_conn_net_cleanup etc. [ 532.287410] CPU 3 [ 532.287410] Modules linked in: xt_mark xt_conntrack ip_vs_wrr(N) ip_vs_lc(N) xt_tcpudp ip_vs_rr(N) nf_conntrack_ipv6 xt_MARK xt_state xt_CONNMARK xt_connmark xt_multiport nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xt_hmark(N) ip6table_mangle iptable_mangle ip6table_filter iptable_filter ip6_tables ip_tables x_tables nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_vs(N) nf_conntrack ip6_tunnel tunnel6 tipc(N) nfs fscache af_packet nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc exportfs drbd softdog bonding macvlan ipv6 ext3 jbd mbcache loop dm_mod usbhid hid ide_pci_generic piix ide_core ata_generic ata_piix ahci libata hpsa uhci_hcd hpilo xen_platform_pci cdrom pcspkr ehci_hcd cciss tpm_tis tpm tpm_bios bnx2 serio_raw ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler i5k_amb i5000_edac rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib usbcore container e1000e edac_core shpchp pci_hotplug scsi_mod button thermal processor thermal_sys hwmon [ 532.350212] Supported: Yes [ 532.350212] Pid: 17, comm: netns Tainted: G N 2.6.32.27-0.2.2.2501.1.PTF-evip #1 ProLiant DL380 G5 [ 532.386359] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8131aaf6>] [<ffffffff8131aaf6>] netlink_has_listeners+0x36/0x40 [ 532.386359] RSP: 0018:ffff880005ac3bf0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 532.386359] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff8800345e2ea8 RCX: ffff880005ac3c98 [ 532.386359] RDX: ffff88012380d740 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff88012819a400 [ 532.386359] RBP: ffff880005ac3d28 R08: ffffffffa0641ca8 R09: 0000000000000024 [ 532.386359] R10: 0000000000004000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8800345e2ea8 [ 532.386359] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 0000000000000004 R15: ffff88012a875fd8 [ 532.386359] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880005ac0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 532.386359] CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 532.386359] CR2: 00007f6a0ecba000 CR3: 0000000001804000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 [ 532.386359] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 532.386359] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 532.386359] Process netns (pid: 17, threadinfo ffff88012a874000, task ffff88012a872500) [ 532.485087] Stack: [ 532.485087] ffffffffa063ff92 ffffffff811e2805 ffff880005ac3c98 00000004811e2805 [ 532.485087] <0> ffff88011d9bd500 0000000300000000 ffff880005ac3da0 ffffffff8103e402 [ 532.485087] <0> ffff880005ac3d40 ffff880005ac3cb0 0000000000013700 0000000000000010 [ 532.485087] Call Trace: [ 532.485087] [<ffffffffa063ff92>] ctnetlink_conntrack_event+0x92/0x730 [nf_conntrack_netlink] [ 532.485087] [<ffffffffa058b274>] death_by_timeout+0xc4/0x190 [nf_conntrack] ## ct->timeout.function(ct->timeout.data); ## [ 532.485087] [<ffffffffa05c544d>] ip_vs_conn_drop_conntrack+0x13d/0x360 [ip_vs] [ 532.485087] [<ffffffffa05ae30d>] ip_vs_conn_expire+0x12d/0x7d0 [ip_vs] ## expired timer ## [ 532.485087] [<ffffffff81059424>] run_timer_softirq+0x174/0x240 [ 532.549596] [<ffffffff810544ef>] __do_softirq+0xbf/0x170 [ 532.549596] [<ffffffff810040bc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 [ 532.549596] [<ffffffff81005d1d>] do_softirq+0x4d/0x80 [ 532.549596] [<ffffffff81054791>] local_bh_enable_ip+0xa1/0xb0 ## ct_write_unlock_bh(idx); ## [ 532.549596] [<ffffffffa05ac25b>] ip_vs_conn_net_cleanup+0xdb/0x160 [ip_vs] ## ip_vs_flush in-lined ## [ 532.576259] [<ffffffffa05afae1>] __ip_vs_cleanup+0x11/0x90 [ip_vs] [ 532.576259] [<ffffffff812f840e>] cleanup_net+0x5e/0xb0 [ 532.576259] [<ffffffff81061468>] run_workqueue+0xb8/0x140 [ 532.594226] [<ffffffff8106158a>] worker_thread+0x9a/0x110 [ 532.594226] [<ffffffff81065696>] kthread+0x96/0xb0 [ 532.603788] [<ffffffff81003fba>] child_rip+0xa/0x20 [ 532.603788] Code: 47 41 8d 4e ff 48 8d 14 80 48 8d 14 50 31 c0 48 c1 e2 03 48 03 15 7b b2 9b 00 3b 4a 3c 48 8b 7a 30 72 02 f3 c3 0f a3 0f 19 c0 c3 <0f> 0b eb fe 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 81 ec 98 00 00 00 41 f6 c0 01 [ 532.623046] RIP [<ffffffff8131aaf6>] netlink_has_listeners+0x36/0x40 [ 532.623046] RSP <ffff880005ac3bf0> [ 532.645100] ---[ end trace c5d2d755323acb17 ]--- [ 532.649810] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt [ 532.656256] Pid: 17, comm: netns Tainted: G D N 2.6.32.27-0.2.2.2501.1.PTF-evip #1 [ 532.664674] Call Trace: [ 532.667221] [<ffffffff810061fc>] dump_trace+0x6c/0x2d0 [ 532.672540] [<ffffffff8139f080>] dump_stack+0x69/0x79 [ 532.677773] [<ffffffff8139f108>] panic+0x78/0x1a1 [ 532.682661] [<ffffffff813a2f09>] oops_end+0xd9/0xf0 [ 532.689168] [<ffffffff81004b94>] do_invalid_op+0x84/0xa0 [ 532.694738] [<ffffffff81003d55>] invalid_op+0x15/0x20 [ 532.699974] [<ffffffff8131aaf6>] netlink_has_listeners+0x36/0x40 [ 532.706159] [<ffffffffa063ff92>] ctnetlink_conntrack_event+0x92/0x730 [nf_conntrack_netlink] [ 532.714844] [<ffffffffa058b274>] death_by_timeout+0xc4/0x190 [nf_conntrack] [ 532.721989] [<ffffffffa05c544d>] ip_vs_conn_drop_conntrack+0x13d/0x360 [ip_vs] [ 532.729463] [<ffffffffa05ae30d>] ip_vs_conn_expire+0x12d/0x7d0 [ip_vs] [ 532.736169] [<ffffffff81059424>] run_timer_softirq+0x174/0x240 [ 532.742182] [<ffffffff810544ef>] __do_softirq+0xbf/0x170 [ 532.747680] [<ffffffff810040bc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 [ 532.753085] [<ffffffff81005d1d>] do_softirq+0x4d/0x80 [ 532.758503] [<ffffffff81054791>] local_bh_enable_ip+0xa1/0xb0 [ 532.764431] [<ffffffffa05ac25b>] ip_vs_conn_net_cleanup+0xdb/0x160 [ip_vs] [ 532.771488] [<ffffffffa05afae1>] __ip_vs_cleanup+0x11/0x90 [ip_vs] [ 532.777848] [<ffffffff812f840e>] cleanup_net+0x5e/0xb0 [ 532.783167] [<ffffffff81061468>] run_workqueue+0xb8/0x140 [ 532.788746] [<ffffffff8106158a>] worker_thread+0x9a/0x110 [ 532.794327] [<ffffffff81065696>] kthread+0x96/0xb0 [ 532.799299] [<ffffffff81003fba>] child_rip+0xa/0x20 [ 532.808358] Rebooting in 2 seconds.. -- Regards Hasse Schillstrom -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lvs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html