[Oisf-devel] FlowShutdown

[Prabhakaran Kasinathan]

>
> From: Victor Julien <victor at inliniac.net>
>
> On 04/08/2013 10:39 AM, Prabhakaran Kasinathan wrote:
> > What does this error represent ?
> >
> >
> >     [Thread 0xb5f89b70 (LWP 11211) exited]
> >     [Thread 0xb4865b70 (LWP 11213) exited]
> >     [Thread 0xb4064b70 (LWP 11214) exited]
> >
> >     suricata: flow.c:478: FlowShutdown: Assertion
> >     `!((f->use_cnt_sc_atomic__) != 0)' failed.
> >
> >     Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> >     0x0012d422 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> >     (gdb)
>
> The flow has a reference counter "use_cnt". It's atomic, so it has the
> _sc_atomic suffix. This reference counter is increased for each packet
> that references the flow. If at shut down, when we should have no more
> active packets, there is still a non-zero use_cnt, it most likely means
> that a packet got lost inside suricata somehow.
>
> Are you seeing this in the official code? Or are you running your own
> modifications?
>

I am seeing it in my own modifications.. I think i fixed it now!  Thanks
for the clarification!
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