Alakesh Haloi <alakeshh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > But In case you can't reproduce, its possible your patch is still needed
> > for stable.
>
> Thanks Florian! I have tested linus's tree and i do not see the issue happening
> there. I have not been able to test nf.git yet. Do you suggest that I should
> start working on backporting relevant patches from mainline or it should be
> possible to apply this patch to stable branches directly?
The relevant mainline fix is probably
b36e4523d4d56e2595e28f16f6ccf1cd6a9fc452
("netfilter: nf_conncount: fix garbage collection confirm race").
But
1. I don't like this fix (i could not come up with anything better...)
2. It will not apply to older stable branches.
So I think you might want to look at this commit, see if you have a
better idea, and if not, apply similar strategy to older stable kernel,
then pass this as a backport to stable maintainers. I can review the
patch.
