xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Panic in ipt_do_table with 2.6.16.13-xen
On 23 May 2006, at 22:23, Matt Ayres wrote:
Having looked at disassembly, the fault happens when accessing
e->ip.invflags in ip_packet_match() inlined inside ipt_do_table().
e = private->entries[smp_processor_id()] +
private->hook_entry[NF_IP_FORWARD]
smp_processor_id() should be 0 (since the oops appears to occur on
cpu0) and presumably all the ipt_entry structures are static once set
up. Since this crash happens on a common path in ipt_do_table(), and
since it happens only after the system has been up a while (I
believe?), it rather looks as though something has either corrupted a
pointer or unmapped memory from under iptables' feet.
As the concerned user, what does this mean to me? It will only affect
SMP systems? It is a bug in Xen or netfilter?
Probably a Xen bug, but if so then it's basically a memory corruption.
It's weird it would hit the iptables rules every time though, and not
be a more random crash. This might well need reproducing in a developer
test-machine environment to stand a chance of tracking down.
-- Keir
I'd just like to understand what is going on.
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