Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
In particular sysctl_check_table finds issues with the sysctl table so register_sysctl_table refuses to register it. > - 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. As a cheap workaround it should be possible to disable SYSCTL support in 2.6.23-rc2-mm2 to get around these issues. Andrew for the moment I have just sent you fixes for all of the issues that I am aware of. Mostly they are cheap kill the sys_sysctl() support patches. Hopefully that is enough to bring the pain level down to manageable. I hadn't anticipated subsystems failing because they could not register their sysctl tables. I was simply expecting things not to show up in /proc/sys. And more of the pain of making working sysctl tables to be pushed back to developers. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
