Toralf Förster <[email protected]> wrote:
> I do run a server with a 64 bit hardened Gentoo Linux (kernel currently
> 4.0.8).
> Around 12th of July it started to spew those messages into kern.log :
>
> /var/log/kern.log:Jul 12 15:26:07 tor-relay kernel: [538360.650490]
> nf_conntrack: falling back to vmalloc.
> /var/log/kern.log:Jul 12 15:26:07 tor-relay kernel: [538360.650615]
> nf_conntrack: falling back to vmalloc.
> /var/log/kern.log:Jul 12 15:26:08 tor-relay kernel: [538361.673649]
> nf_conntrack: falling back to vmalloc.
> /var/log/kern.log:Jul 12 15:26:08 tor-relay kernel: [538361.673786]
> nf_conntrack: falling back to vmalloc.
>
> I read https://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3092 but a reboot did not
> help.
> I got 1-2 thousends of those lines per day.
Most likely result of 88eab472ec21f01d3e36ff ("netfilter: conntrack:
adjust nf_conntrack_buckets default value".
Do you run containers?
This message can only be printed when a new network namespace is created
(or something is rmmod/modprobing nf_conntrack module all the time).
I wonder if this is caused by some program creating netns for
sandboxing?
Pablo, Patrick -- any idea on how to stop conntrack from becoming active
in a newly created netns automatically without breaking anything?
With upcoming per netns hooks, we might be able to delay registering
conntrack, defrag etc. until after a -m conntrack rule has been added.
Dou you think that could work?
For nft we could create an expression to configure conntrack explicitly
(inverse NOTRACK).
[ obviously we can also add that for xtables but that would break
setups if we suddently move to "you must ask for conntrack via
ruleset" model. ]
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