Re: kernel panic when running /etc/init.d/iptables restart

[canqun zhang]

Thanks for your suggestion,i will modify this patch and take tests.

2012/12/25 Gao feng <gaofeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 2012/12/25 15:25, canqun zhang wrote:
>> Hi Gao feng
>> The stack information is as follows. The kenel will panic because the
>> nf_ct_destroy is NULL.
>>
>> Reproduction:
>> (1) starting a lxc container
>> (2) iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.48.254.18 -o eth1 -j
>> MASQUERADE (run it on host machine)
>> (3) /etc/ini.d/iptables save (run it on host machine)
>> (4)/etc/init.d/iptables restart (run it on host machine)
>>
>
> Thanks!
> It seems that nf_conntrack_l[3,4]proto_unregister doesn't make sure
> nf_conns of the proto being destroyed.
>
> If I'm right, there is another problem even your fix this panic problem.
> the l3,14proto will be unregistered before all of it's nf_conns being destroyed.
> So even nf_ct_destroy is not NULL,in destroy_conntrack we are not able to
> find the right l4proto,the l4proto->destroy will be incorrect.resources will
> not be released correctly.
>
> So I think the root problem is we do register/unregister, set/unset both on the
> first net (init_net), Maybe it's better to do register set on the first net, and
> do unregister unset on the last net.
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