[LARTC] Re: "dst cache overflow" messages and crash

Frédéric Massot frederic at juliana-multimedia.com
Fri Apr 6 19:02:46 CEST 2007


Julian Anastasov wrote:
> 	Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Frédéric Massot wrote:
> 
>>>>>> I regularly have errors (kernel: dst cache overflow) and crash of a
>>>>>> firewall under Linux 2.6.17 and the route patch from Julian Anastasov.
>>> 	I assume IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED is disabled. Do you have
>>> BRIDGE_NETFILTER enabled/used?
>> - IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED is not set
>> - BRIDGE_NETFILTER is set, but I do not use it.
> 
> 	ok, then can you try the attached patch, it solves dst cache
> problem for another user, may be it will help you too. This patch can
> be used with or without routes patches. It makes sure we don't leak
> dst entry in bridge-netfilter. If the patch does not help let me know
> and we can add some printks to catch the problem.

Hi,

Thank you for your answer, as your patch comes from the kernel 2.6.20, I 
installed this version of the kernel with the patch (routes-2.6.20-14.diff).

That made a little more than one week that I supervise and it cache is 
well cleaned regularly. All seems to be good.  :o)

Regards.
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