On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 05:09:01AM +0200, Oliver wrote: > On Thursday 30 August 2012 04:50:09 you wrote: > > Not sure what you mean, you're still crashing with the patch below, > > right? > > > > My proposal is to give a try to the ecache patch, that requires > > removing the previous patch. > > Apologies for the confusion; the patch quoted is essentially the first patch > you provided me, with my changes to make it work in 3.4.10 *plus* the deletion > of the change to nf_conntrack_ecache.h where your patch deleted the > nf_ct_is_dying() check (i.e I have this check left in) - with this > modification, I find that conntrackd is well-behaved and I have thus far not > successfully caused a kernel panic. > > Having tested your latest patch, I can also confirm that it also does not > crash, including at exhaustion of the conntrack table. > > In terms of overall stability, I would presume your latest patch is superior > to the previous (i.e. what I attached most recently) ? Yes, I prefer the second patch. There is still races in the first patch I sent you, harder to trigger, but still there. There are several cleanups I'd like to recover from the first patch though. Would you help testing them? Thanks a lot for testing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html