Re: SMP/ebtables crash under load.

Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 10:22 -0500, schreef Steve Herrell:
> Hi.
> 
> I've been setting up a firewall using ebtables and was getting a crash 
> under heavy load. I was seeing a "kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt 
> handler" in ebt_do_table().
> 
> I think I tracked the problem down to a race condition between 
> ebt_do_table() and do_replace() (my firewall was doing dynamic outgoing 
> SNAT). The following is a patch for ebtables.c that cured the problem.

You're right, thanks a lot. Your fix has been sent to Dave and will is
in the new ebtables/bridge-nf release.

cheers,
Bart




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