Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758662AbZDEIXP (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 04:23:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757656AbZDEIWx (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 04:22:53 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:44615 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758619AbZDEIWt (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 04:22:49 -0400 Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090405.012237.198610462.davem@davemloft.net> To: graham@gmurray.org.uk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Regression caused by commit "netfilter: iptables: lock free counters" From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <8763hja8cy.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> References: <20090329234702.4988017f@desktop.r000n.info> <8763hja8cy.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1931 Lines: 43 From: Graham Murray Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:05:17 +0100 Please CC the appropriate mailing lists (as I have now) when reporting this incredibly useful information. The networking and netfilter developers largely do not read linux-kernel. > Roman Mindalev writes: > > > Result of the bisection: > > > > 784544739a25c30637397ace5489eeb6e15d7d49 is first bad commit > > commit 784544739a25c30637397ace5489eeb6e15d7d49 > > I am seeing a different problem which also bisects to this commit. There are > no kernel messages but ip6tables fails to run. > > newton ~ # ip6tables -L -v > FATAL: Module ip6_tables not found. > ip6tables v1.4.3.1: can't initialize ip6tables table `filter': Memory allocation problem > Perhaps ip6tables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. > > I get this error no matter which ip6tables sub-command I run. Ip6tables > is built into the kernel, not as modules. > > An strace shows the failure to be > socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_RAW) = 3 > getsockopt(3, SOL_IPV6, 0x40 /* IPV6_??? */, "filter\0\305\0w~\300\0wb\305P\24\312\t\0009b\305\216\23\0\0\310\341/g\16"..., [84]) = 0 > brk(0) = 0x8273000 > brk(0x8294000) = 0x8294000 > getsockopt(3, SOL_IPV6, 0x41 /* IPV6_??? */, 0x8273090, 0xbfd23628) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) > close(3) = 0 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/