Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:33:41 -0600 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > >> Gabriel C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Michal Piotrowski wrote: >> >> Andrew Morton pisze: >> >>> >> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc2/2.6.23-rc2-mm2/ >> >>> >> >> >> >> Yet another sysctl table check failed >> >> >> >> [ 88.949055] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30. >> >> [ 89.485399] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max) >> >> [ 89.491892] sysctl table check failed: >> > /net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_generic_timeout .3.19.13 Missing strategy >> >> [ 89.558178] xt_state: Unknown symbol nf_conntrack_untracked >> >> [ 89.563942] xt_state: Unknown symbol nf_ct_l3proto_module_put >> >> [ 89.569870] xt_state: Unknown symbol nf_ct_l3proto_try_module_get >> >> [ 90.852319] NET: Registered protocol family 17 >> >> >> > >> > And maybe this ? >> >> Could be. >> >> sysctl table check failure looks legitimate. >> At a quick skim I can't tell for certain if failure to register the >> sysctl table will keep the module from loading but it might. >> >> It looks like another canidate on the pile of kill the broken >> binary sysctl. >> > > There seems to be rather a lot of damage here. > > I assume that the sysctl changes are what caused the netfilter oopses. > > - nf_conntrack_init() calls nf_conntrack_expect_init() which fails due to > sysctl problems. > > - nf_conntrack_init() bales out without calling nf_conntrack_helper_init() > > So nf_ct_helper_hsize never gets initialised. > > - Later, netfilter client code calls helper_hash(), which gets a > divide-by-zero due to nf_ct_helper_hsize==0. > > > yeah, that's a netfilter bug, but we're trying to get kernels tested here. > If I'm feeling energetic I'll drop the sysctl changes and do rc2-mm3. > Probably I won't feel energetic, but we'll need a lot of fixes here before > I can release the sysctl changes in another -mm, please.
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