Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: ip_conntrack modules still somewhat buggy | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2000 03:21:36 +1000 |
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In message <398DAFA3.AC381807@baldauf.org> you write: > Hello, > > from the log below, you can see, that the module ip_conntrack is neither > loaded nor unloaded. This should never happen, but it does in > linux-2.4.0-test5. Maybe there are some insmod|rmmod races, because I > insmod ip_conntrack in my /etc/ppp/ip-up script and I rmmod it in my > /etc/ppp/ip-down script, and unter rare circumstances, both may be run > simultaneously. > > router|20:27:10|/etc> lsmod > Module Size Used by > ip_conntrack 0 0 (deleted)
This means that someone is holding an skb with a reference to a connection, so ip_conntrack won't unload. This is insoluble with the current module architecture.
Rusty. -- Hacking time.
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