Re: [PATCH v2] netfilter: nf_conntrack: resolve clash for matching conntracks

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On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 01:23:01PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I see, so this is just solving the conflict for a specific usecase
> > with NAT in place, ie. get_unique_tuple() returns same tuple...
> > 
> > But how so? With NAT in place, the packet losing race will eventually
> > get a different tuple, given the tuple that the first packet is using
> > would be already in use.
> > 
> > Do you have any other out-of-tree patch on top of this?
> > 
> > Or maybe I am missing anything? :-)
> 
> AFAIU its locally running (threaded) process, so both skbs have
> non-confirmed conntracks.
> 
> Thus, get_unique_tuple() can have high chance of not finding
> reverse tuple in the conntrack table because the clashing one is
> also not in global hash yet.

Ah I see, it's indeed different scenario than the one I fixed for
nfqueue.

OK, I'm going to request some minor changes to this patch and we move
on.

Thanks!
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