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  nf_conntrack: falling back to vmalloc. Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> - 2015-07-17 11:10 +0200
    Re: nf_conntrack: falling back to vmalloc. Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> - 2015-07-17 12:20 +0200
      Re: nf_conntrack: falling back to vmalloc. Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> - 2015-07-17 16:40 +0200

#1186606 — nf_conntrack: falling back to vmalloc.

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.

Any hints ?

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Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> 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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On 07/17/2015 12:10 PM, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Do you run containers?

No, I just run 4 Gentoo chroot images in parallel - but I do that since autumn last year.

Unfortunately I cannot see any correlation to an os/sw upgrade or a config change which could cause these messages nowadays to be appear.
Therefore I do wonder if some network related "traffic" causes this, b/c that box acts as a Tor exit relay too.


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