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Linus Torvalds 6a2b60b17b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
 "While small this set of changes is very significant with respect to
  containers in general and user namespaces in particular.  The user
  space interface is now complete.

  This set of changes adds support for unprivileged users to create user
  namespaces and as a user namespace root to create other namespaces.
  The tyranny of supporting suid root preventing unprivileged users from
  using cool new kernel features is broken.

  This set of changes completes the work on setns, adding support for
  the pid, user, mount namespaces.

  This set of changes includes a bunch of basic pid namespace
  cleanups/simplifications.  Of particular significance is the rework of
  the pid namespace cleanup so it no longer requires sending out
  tendrils into all kinds of unexpected cleanup paths for operation.  At
  least one case of broken error handling is fixed by this cleanup.

  The files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ have been converted from regular files
  to magic symlinks which prevents incorrect caching by the VFS,
  ensuring the files always refer to the namespace the process is
  currently using and ensuring that the ptrace_mayaccess permission
  checks are always applied.

  The files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ have been given stable inode numbers
  so it is now possible to see if different processes share the same
  namespaces.

  Through the David Miller's net tree are changes to relax many of the
  permission checks in the networking stack to allowing the user
  namespace root to usefully use the networking stack.  Similar changes
  for the mount namespace and the pid namespace are coming through my
  tree.

  Two small changes to add user namespace support were commited here adn
  in David Miller's -net tree so that I could complete the work on the
  /proc/<pid>/ns/ files in this tree.

  Work remains to make it safe to build user namespaces and 9p, afs,
  ceph, cifs, coda, gfs2, ncpfs, nfs, nfsd, ocfs2, and xfs so the
  Kconfig guard remains in place preventing that user namespaces from
  being built when any of those filesystems are enabled.

  Future design work remains to allow root users outside of the initial
  user namespace to mount more than just /proc and /sys."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (38 commits)
  proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors.
  proc: Fix the namespace inode permission checks.
  proc: Generalize proc inode allocation
  userns: Allow unprivilged mounts of proc and sysfs
  userns: For /proc/self/{uid,gid}_map derive the lower userns from the struct file
  procfs: Print task uids and gids in the userns that opened the proc file
  userns: Implement unshare of the user namespace
  userns: Implent proc namespace operations
  userns: Kill task_user_ns
  userns: Make create_new_namespaces take a user_ns parameter
  userns: Allow unprivileged use of setns.
  userns: Allow unprivileged users to create new namespaces
  userns: Allow setting a userns mapping to your current uid.
  userns: Allow chown and setgid preservation
  userns: Allow unprivileged users to create user namespaces.
  userns: Ignore suid and sgid on binaries if the uid or gid can not be mapped
  userns: fix return value on mntns_install() failure
  vfs: Allow unprivileged manipulation of the mount namespace.
  vfs: Only support slave subtrees across different user namespaces
  vfs: Add a user namespace reference from struct mnt_namespace
  ...
2012-12-17 15:44:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds a2013a13e6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
  code elimination."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  HOWTO: fix double words typo
  x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
  propagate name change to comments in kernel source
  doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
  treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
  treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
  wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
  messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
  scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
  Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
  radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
  doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
  various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
  Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
  eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
  various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
  doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
  target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
  treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
  treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
  ...
2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 6be35c700f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking changes from David Miller:

1) Allow to dump, monitor, and change the bridge multicast database
   using netlink.  From Cong Wang.

2) RFC 5961 TCP blind data injection attack mitigation, from Eric
   Dumazet.

3) Networking user namespace support from Eric W. Biederman.

4) tuntap/virtio-net multiqueue support by Jason Wang.

5) Support for checksum offload of encapsulated packets (basically,
   tunneled traffic can still be checksummed by HW).  From Joseph
   Gasparakis.

6) Allow BPF filter access to VLAN tags, from Eric Dumazet and
   Daniel Borkmann.

7) Bridge port parameters over netlink and BPDU blocking support
   from Stephen Hemminger.

8) Improve data access patterns during inet socket demux by rearranging
   socket layout, from Eric Dumazet.

9) TIPC protocol updates and cleanups from Ying Xue, Paul Gortmaker, and
   Jon Maloy.

10) Update TCP socket hash sizing to be more in line with current day
    realities.  The existing heurstics were choosen a decade ago.
    From Eric Dumazet.

11) Fix races, queue bloat, and excessive wakeups in ATM and
    associated drivers, from Krzysztof Mazur and David Woodhouse.

12) Support DOVE (Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet) extensions
    in VXLAN driver, from David Stevens.

13) Add "oops_only" mode to netconsole, from Amerigo Wang.

14) Support set and query of VEB/VEPA bridge mode via PF_BRIDGE, also
    allow DCB netlink to work on namespaces other than the initial
    namespace.  From John Fastabend.

15) Support PTP in the Tigon3 driver, from Matt Carlson.

16) tun/vhost zero copy fixes and improvements, plus turn it on
    by default, from Michael S. Tsirkin.

17) Support per-association statistics in SCTP, from Michele
    Baldessari.

And many, many, driver updates, cleanups, and improvements.  Too
numerous to mention individually.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1722 commits)
  net/mlx4_en: Add support for destination MAC in steering rules
  net/mlx4_en: Use generic etherdevice.h functions.
  net: ethtool: Add destination MAC address to flow steering API
  bridge: add support of adding and deleting mdb entries
  bridge: notify mdb changes via netlink
  ndisc: Unexport ndisc_{build,send}_skb().
  uapi: add missing netconf.h to export list
  pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possible
  solos-pci: fix double-free of TX skb in DMA mode
  bnx2: Fix accidental reversions.
  bna: Driver Version Updated to 3.1.2.1
  bna: Firmware update
  bna: Add RX State
  bna: Rx Page Based Allocation
  bna: TX Intr Coalescing Fix
  bna: Tx and Rx Optimizations
  bna: Code Cleanup and Enhancements
  ath9k: check pdata variable before dereferencing it
  ath5k: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame
  ath9k_htc: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame
  ...
2012-12-12 18:07:07 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki fd0ea7dbfa ndisc: Unexport ndisc_{build,send}_skb().
These symbols were exported for bonding device by commit 305d552a
("bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover").

It bacame obsolete by commit 7c899432 ("bonding, ipv4, ipv6, vlan: Handle
NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER like NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS") and removed by
commit 4f5762ec ("bonding: Remove obsolete source file 'bond_ipv6.c'").

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-12 12:42:29 -05:00
Linus Torvalds d206e09036 Merge branch 'for-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup changes from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on cgroup side.  The big changes are focused on
  making cgroup hierarchy handling saner.

   - cgroup_rmdir() had peculiar semantics - it allowed cgroup
     destruction to be vetoed by individual controllers and tried to
     drain refcnt synchronously.  The vetoing never worked properly and
     caused good deal of contortions in cgroup.  memcg was the last
     reamining user.  Michal Hocko removed the usage and cgroup_rmdir()
     path has been simplified significantly.  This was done in a
     separate branch so that the memcg people can base further memcg
     changes on top.

   - The above allowed cleaning up cgroup lifecycle management and
     implementation of generic cgroup iterators which are used to
     improve hierarchy support.

   - cgroup_freezer updated to allow migration in and out of a frozen
     cgroup and handle hierarchy.  If a cgroup is frozen, all descendant
     cgroups are frozen.

   - netcls_cgroup and netprio_cgroup updated to handle hierarchy
     properly.

   - Various fixes and cleanups.

   - Two merge commits.  One to pull in memcg and rmdir cleanups (needed
     to build iterators).  The other pulled in cgroup/for-3.7-fixes for
     device_cgroup fixes so that further device_cgroup patches can be
     stacked on top."

Fixed up a trivial conflict in mm/memcontrol.c as per Tejun (due to
commit bea8c150a7 ("memcg: fix hotplugged memory zone oops") in master
touching code close to commit 2ef37d3fe4 ("memcg: Simplify
mem_cgroup_force_empty_list error handling") in for-3.8)

* 'for-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (65 commits)
  cgroup: update Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX
  cgroup_rm_file: don't delete the uncreated files
  cgroup: remove subsystem files when remounting cgroup
  cgroup: use cgroup_addrm_files() in cgroup_clear_directory()
  cgroup: warn about broken hierarchies only after css_online
  cgroup: list_del_init() on removed events
  cgroup: fix lockdep warning for event_control
  cgroup: move list add after list head initilization
  netprio_cgroup: allow nesting and inherit config on cgroup creation
  netprio_cgroup: implement netprio[_set]_prio() helpers
  netprio_cgroup: use cgroup->id instead of cgroup_netprio_state->prioidx
  netprio_cgroup: reimplement priomap expansion
  netprio_cgroup: shorten variable names in extend_netdev_table()
  netprio_cgroup: simplify write_priomap()
  netcls_cgroup: move config inheritance to ->css_online() and remove .broken_hierarchy marking
  cgroup: remove obsolete guarantee from cgroup_task_migrate.
  cgroup: add cgroup->id
  cgroup, cpuset: remove cgroup_subsys->post_clone()
  cgroup: s/CGRP_CLONE_CHILDREN/CGRP_CPUSET_CLONE_CHILDREN/
  cgroup: rename ->create/post_create/pre_destroy/destroy() to ->css_alloc/online/offline/free()
  ...
2012-12-12 08:18:24 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 1abbe1394a pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possible
With BQL being deployed, we can more likely have following behavior :

We dequeue a packet from qdisc in dequeue_skb(), then we realize target
tx queue is in XOFF state in sch_direct_xmit(), and we have to hold the
skb into gso_skb for later.

This shows in stats (tc -s qdisc dev eth0) as requeues.

Problem of these requeues is that high priority packets can not be
dequeued as long as this (possibly low prio and big TSO packet) is not
removed from gso_skb.

At 1Gbps speed, a full size TSO packet is 500 us of extra latency.

In some cases, we know that all packets dequeued from a qdisc are
for a particular and known txq :

- If device is non multi queue
- For all MQ/MQPRIO slave qdiscs

This patch introduces a new qdisc flag, TCQ_F_ONETXQUEUE to mark
this capability, so that dequeue_skb() is allowed to dequeue a packet
only if the associated txq is not stopped.

This indeed reduce latencies for high prio packets (or improve fairness
with sfq/fq_codel), and almost remove qdisc 'requeues'.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-12 00:16:47 -05:00
John W. Linville f9c4d420c1 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem 2012-12-11 16:24:55 -05:00
John W. Linville c66cfd5325 Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.sipsolutions.net/mac80211-next 2012-12-11 16:04:03 -05:00
Eric Dumazet f8e8f97c11 net: fix a race in gro_cell_poll()
Dmitry Kravkov reported packet drops for GRE packets since GRO support
was added.

There is a race in gro_cell_poll() because we call napi_complete()
without any synchronization with a concurrent gro_cells_receive()

Once bug was triggered, we queued packets but did not schedule NAPI
poll.

We can fix this issue using the spinlock protected the napi_skbs queue,
as we have to hold it to perform skb dequeue anyway.

As we open-code skb_dequeue(), we no longer need to mask IRQS, as both
producer and consumer run under BH context.

Bug added in commit c9e6bc644e (net: add gro_cells infrastructure)

Reported-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-11 12:49:53 -05:00
Yuchung Cheng 93b174ad71 tcp: bug fix Fast Open client retransmission
If SYN-ACK partially acks SYN-data, the client retransmits the
remaining data by tcp_retransmit_skb(). This increments lost recovery
state variables like tp->retrans_out in Open state. If loss recovery
happens before the retransmission is acked, it triggers the WARN_ON
check in tcp_fastretrans_alert(). For example: the client sends
SYN-data, gets SYN-ACK acking only ISN, retransmits data, sends
another 4 data packets and get 3 dupacks.

Since the retransmission is not caused by network drop it should not
update the recovery state variables. Further the server may return a
smaller MSS than the cached MSS used for SYN-data, so the retranmission
needs a loop. Otherwise some data will not be retransmitted until timeout
or other loss recovery events.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-07 14:39:28 -05:00
Thomas Graf 45122ca26c sctp: Add RCU protection to assoc->transport_addr_list
peer.transport_addr_list is currently only protected by sk_sock
which is inpractical to acquire for procfs dumping purposes.

This patch adds RCU protection allowing for the procfs readers to
enter RCU read-side critical sections.

Modification of the list continues to be serialized via sk_lock.

V2: Use list_del_rcu() in sctp_association_free() to be safe
    Skip transports marked dead when dumping for procfs

Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-07 14:15:04 -05:00
John W. Linville 8024dc1910 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem 2012-12-07 13:03:50 -05:00
John W. Linville 403e16731f Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c
2012-12-06 14:58:41 -05:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 5b632fe85e mac80211: introduce IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAIL
Commit f0425beda4 "mac80211: retry sending
failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down aggr" caused regression
on rt2x00 hardware (connection hangs). This regression was fixed by
commit be03d4a45c "rt2x00: Don't let
mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU subframe fails". But the latter
commit caused yet another problem reported in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42828#c22

After long discussion in this thread:
http://mid.gmane.org/20121018075615.GA18212@redhat.com
and testing various alternative solutions, which failed on one or other
setup, we have no other good fix for the issues like just revert both
mentioned earlier commits.

To do not affect other hardware which benefit from commit
f0425beda4, instead of reverting it,
introduce flag that when used will restore mac80211 behaviour before
the commit.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
[replaced link with mid.gmane.org that has message-id]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-05 09:53:31 +01:00
Nicolas Dichtel d67b8c616b netconf: advertise mc_forwarding status
This patch advertise the MC_FORWARDING status for IPv4 and IPv6.
This field is readonly, only multicast engine in the kernel updates it.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-04 13:08:10 -05:00
David S. Miller e8ad1a8fab Merge branch 'master' of git://1984.lsi.us.es/nf-next
Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
* Remove limitation in the maximum number of supported sets in ipset.
  Now ipset automagically increments the number of slots in the array
  of sets by 64 new spare slots, from Jozsef Kadlecsik.

* Partially remove the generic queue infrastructure now that ip_queue
  is gone. Its only client is nfnetlink_queue now, from Florian
  Westphal.

* Add missing attribute policy checkings in ctnetlink, from Florian
  Westphal.

* Automagically kill conntrack entries that use the wrong output
  interface for the masquerading case in case of routing changes,
  from Jozsef Kadlecsik.

* Two patches two improve ct object traceability. Now ct objects are
  always placed in any of the existing lists. This allows us to dump
  the content of unconfirmed and dying conntracks via ctnetlink as
  a way to provide more instrumentation in case you suspect leaks,
  from myself.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-04 13:01:19 -05:00
John W. Linville 06ef5c4bbb Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next 2012-12-03 13:46:03 -05:00
Michele Baldessari 196d675934 sctp: Add support to per-association statistics via a new SCTP_GET_ASSOC_STATS call
The current SCTP stack is lacking a mechanism to have per association
statistics. This is an implementation modeled after OpenSolaris'
SCTP_GET_ASSOC_STATS.

Userspace part will follow on lksctp if/when there is a general ACK on
this.
V4:
- Move ipackets++ before q->immediate.func() for consistency reasons
- Move sctp_max_rto() at the end of sctp_transport_update_rto() to avoid
  returning bogus RTO values
- return asoc->rto_min when max_obs_rto value has not changed

V3:
- Increase ictrlchunks in sctp_assoc_bh_rcv() as well
- Move ipackets++ to sctp_inq_push()
- return 0 when no rto updates took place since the last call

V2:
- Implement partial retrieval of stat struct to cope for future expansion
- Kill the rtxpackets counter as it cannot be precise anyway
- Rename outseqtsns to outofseqtsns to make it clearer that these are out
  of sequence unexpected TSNs
- Move asoc->ipackets++ under a lock to avoid potential miscounts
- Fold asoc->opackets++ into the already existing asoc check
- Kill unneeded (q->asoc) test when increasing rtxchunks
- Do not count octrlchunks if sending failed (SCTP_XMIT_OK != 0)
- Don't count SHUTDOWNs as SACKs
- Move SCTP_GET_ASSOC_STATS to the private space API
- Adjust the len check in sctp_getsockopt_assoc_stats() to allow for
  future struct growth
- Move association statistics in their own struct
- Update idupchunks when we send a SACK with dup TSNs
- return min_rto in max_rto when RTO has not changed. Also return the
  transport when max_rto last changed.

Signed-off: Michele Baldessari <michele@acksyn.org>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-03 13:32:15 -05:00
Andrei Emeltchenko f2592d3ee3 Bluetooth: trivial: Change NO_FCS_RECV to RECV_NO_FCS
Make code more readable by changing CONF_NO_FCS_RECV which is read
as "No L2CAP FCS option received" to CONF_RECV_NO_FCS which means
"Received L2CAP option NO_FCS". This flag really means that we have
received L2CAP FRAME CHECK SEQUENCE (FCS) OPTION with value "No FCS".

Signed-off-by: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
2012-12-03 16:00:01 -02:00
Andrei Emeltchenko 5d05416e09 Bluetooth: AMP: Check that AMP is present and active
Before starting quering remote AMP controllers make sure
that there is local active AMP controller.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
2012-12-03 16:00:00 -02:00
Gustavo Padovan ffa88e02bc Bluetooth: Move double negation to macros
Some comparisons needs to double negation(!!) in order to make the value
of the field boolean. Add it to the macro makes the code more readable.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
2012-12-03 15:59:59 -02:00
Frédéric Dalleau 20714bfef8 Bluetooth: Implement deferred sco socket setup
In order to authenticate and configure an incoming SCO connection, the
BT_DEFER_SETUP option was added. This option is intended to defer reply
to Connect Request on SCO sockets.
When a connection is requested, the listening socket is unblocked but
the effective connection setup happens only on first recv. Any send
between accept and recv fails with -ENOTCONN.

Signed-off-by: Frédéric Dalleau <frederic.dalleau@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
2012-12-03 15:59:58 -02:00
Jozsef Kadlecsik a0ecb85a2c netfilter: nf_nat: Handle routing changes in MASQUERADE target
When the route changes (backup default route, VPNs) which affect a
masqueraded target, the packets were sent out with the outdated source
address. The patch addresses the issue by comparing the outgoing interface
directly with the masqueraded interface in the nat table.

Events are inefficient in this case, because it'd require adding route
events to the network core and then scanning the whole conntrack table
and re-checking the route for all entry.

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-12-03 15:14:20 +01:00
Florian Westphal 0360ae412d netfilter: kill support for per-af queue backends
We used to have several queueing backends, but nowadays only
nfnetlink_queue remains.

In light of this there doesn't seem to be a good reason to
support per-af registering -- just hook up nfnetlink_queue on module
load and remove it on unload.

This means that the userspace BIND/UNBIND_PF commands are now obsolete;
the kernel will ignore them.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-12-03 15:07:48 +01:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 04dac0111d netfilter: nf_conntrack: improve nf_conn object traceability
This patch modifies the conntrack subsystem so that all existing
allocated conntrack objects can be found in any of the following
places:

* the hash table, this is the typical place for alive conntrack objects.
* the unconfirmed list, this is the place for newly created conntrack objects
  that are still traversing the stack.
* the dying list, this is where you can find conntrack objects that are dying
  or that should die anytime soon (eg. once the destroy event is delivered to
  the conntrackd daemon).

Thus, we make sure that we follow the track for all existing conntrack
objects. This patch, together with some extension of the ctnetlink interface
to dump the content of the dying and unconfirmed lists, will help in case
to debug suspected nf_conn object leaks.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-12-03 15:06:33 +01:00