Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc8: FTP transfer errors

From: Mark Lord <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:29:23 -0400

David Miller wrote:
> From: Mark Lord <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:16:11 -0400
> 
>> [c67499c0e772064b37ad75eb69b28fc218752636 is first bad commit
>> commit c67499c0e772064b37ad75eb69b28fc218752636
>> Author: Pavel Emelyanov <[email-masked]>
>> Date:   Thu Jan 31 05:06:40 2008 -0800
>>
>>     [NETNS]: Tcp-v4 sockets per-net lookup.
>>
>>     Add a net argument to inet_lookup and propagate it further
>>     into lookup calls. Plus tune the __inet_check_established.
>>
>>     The dccp and inet_diag, which use that lookup functions
>>     pass the init_net into them.
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[email-masked]>
>>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
> 
> Thanks Mark.
> 
> Pavel can you take a look?  I suspect that the namespace
> changes or gets NULL'd out somehow and this leads to the
> resets because the socket can no longer be found.  Perhaps
> it's even a problem with time-wait socket namespace
> propagation.
..

My system here is now set up for quick/easy retest, if you have any
suggestions or patches to try out.

Thanks guys.