Re: kernel stack trace using conntrack
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Date: 2010-02-16 13:33:09
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Eric Dumazet wrote:
OK thanks David, I reproduced the problem on latest net-next-2.6 tree too. I wonder why nobody hit this before.
Hmm, my config had not NETFILTER_DEBUG enabled, that's why I didn't hit that assertion.
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[352468.556484] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [352468.556511] WARNING: at net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c:82 __nf_ct_ext_add+0x1c2/0x1e0 [nf_conntrack]() [352468.556559] Hardware name: ProLiant BL460c G1 [352468.556582] Modules linked in: nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_conntrack_netlink nf_conntrack sch_hfsc sch_sfq ipmi_devintf ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler hpilo bonding [last unloaded: nf_conntrack_ipv4] [352468.556675] Pid: 18852, comm: conntrack Tainted: G W 2.6.33-rc5-02754-g0ea034c-dirty #545 [352468.556721] Call Trace: [352468.556742] [<c054d45f>] ? printk+0x1d/0x26 [352468.556767] [<c023bbc2>] warn_slowpath_common+0x72/0xa0 [352468.556795] [<fee75e42>] ? __nf_ct_ext_add+0x1c2/0x1e0 [nf_conntrack] [352468.556825] [<fee75e42>] ? __nf_ct_ext_add+0x1c2/0x1e0 [nf_conntrack] [352468.556854] [<c023bc0a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [352468.556882] [<fee75e42>] __nf_ct_ext_add+0x1c2/0x1e0 [nf_conntrack] [352468.556911] [<fee70dcc>] ? nf_conntrack_alloc+0x10c/0x1a0 [nf_conntrack] [352468.556940] [<feecaf59>] ctnetlink_create_conntrack+0x339/0x360 [nf_conntrack_netlink] [352468.556987] [<feeca26b>] ? ctnetlink_parse_tuple+0x14b/0x1c0 [nf_conntrack_netlink] [352468.557039] [<fee6fd60>] ? __nf_conntrack_find+0x70/0x100 [nf_conntrack] [352468.557068] [<feecb090>] ctnetlink_new_conntrack+0x110/0x680 [nf_conntrack_netlink] [352468.557113] [<c04d93b5>] nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x125/0x180 [352468.557140] [<c054ec57>] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x197/0x230 [352468.557167] [<c04d9290>] ? nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x0/0x180 [352468.557194] [<c04d5896>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x96/0xc0 [352468.557219] [<c04d927c>] nfnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x30 [352468.557245] [<c04d5545>] netlink_unicast+0x255/0x2a0 [352468.557274] [<c04d5d3f>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1af/0x2b0 [352468.557300] [<c04a86ec>] sock_sendmsg+0xac/0xe0 [352468.559358] [<c029d042>] ? find_get_page+0x22/0xd0 [352468.559385] [<c029d9dc>] ? filemap_fault+0x8c/0x3c0 [352468.559410] [<c04a905a>] sys_sendto+0xaa/0xd0 [352468.559436] [<c02b3780>] ? __do_fault+0x370/0x470 [352468.559462] [<c02b54d9>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x1d9/0x7d0 [352468.559488] [<c04aa245>] sys_socketcall+0x195/0x280 [352468.559514] [<c0202c50>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26 [352468.559539] ---[ end trace 6ecb842e4e35a653 ]--- Could you try following patch ? Thanksdiff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c index 0ffe689..d2657aa 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ ctnetlink_change_status(struct nf_conn *ct, const struct nlattr * const cda[]) unsigned int status = ntohl(nla_get_be32(cda[CTA_STATUS])); d = ct->status ^ status; - if (d & (IPS_EXPECTED|IPS_CONFIRMED|IPS_DYING)) + if (d & (IPS_EXPECTED|IPS_DYING)) /* unchangeable */ return -EBUSY;
I think that we should explicitly report if the user unsets IPS_CONFIRMED. Please, don't change this. Apart from that, the patch seems fine to me. Thanks!