Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [netfilter-core] 2.4.23/others and ip_conntrack causing hangs | Date | Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:33:26 +1100 |
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In message <3FCBDABF.6080804@trash.net> you write: > Rusty Russell wrote: > > >Unfortunately, some packets are still referencing connections, so the > >module *cannot* go away. Figuring out exactly where the packets are > >referenced from is the fun part. We explicitly drop the reference in > >ip_local_deliver_finish() for exactly this reason. Perhaps there is > >somewhere else we should be doing the same thing. > > > > > Perhaps in dev_queue_xmit ? Otherwise packets stuck in queues hold > references to conntracks. Loopback traffic might cause some trouble > because the "previously seen?" expection in ip_conntrack_core wouldn't > work anymore.
But I wouldn't expect packets there to be held indefinitely, so I never worried about it.
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