Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:31:11 -0400 | From | Andy Gospodarek <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-rc9: Reported regressions from 2.6.24 |
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:18:54PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Patrick McHardy wrote: > >>> > >>>Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10323 > >>>Subject : panic using bridging on linus kernel 2.6.25-rc6 > >>>Submitter : Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> > >>>Date : 2008-03-25 11:40 (20 days old) > >> > >>This looks like another network-namespace regression. > >>icmp_send() does: > >> > >> net = rt->u.dst.dev->nd_net; > >> > >>The bridge netfilter code attaches a fake dst_entry to the > >>skb which has dev == NULL when passing it to IPv4 netfilter. > >> > >>Pavel, do you have a better ideas for fixing this than > >>instantiating a dst_entry in br_netfilter.c for every > >>device (or at least for every namespace)? > > > >The description of the problem was not entirely correct, the > >bridge-netfilter dst_entry does have a proper device pointer, > >it points to a dummy net_device structure however that doesn't > >have a namespace associated with it. This blows up in > >__ip_route_output_key. > > For now I suggest this fix. Andy, could you please test whether it > fixes the problem? > >
I'm guessing it will. I've been testing my older kernels today and somehow I'm unable to reproduce the original problem, so I need to figure out what is different about my config now and before.
I'll definitely post back when I test this, but I wanted to make sure you guys knew I was at least trying it. :)
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