linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28(.1) and netlink: scheduling while atomic

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Message-ID: <4976F0EB.8050806@trash.net>
Date:	Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:54:51 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Kövesdi György <kgy@...edigit.hu>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Netfilter Developer Mailing List 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28(.1) and netlink: scheduling while atomic

Kövesdi György wrote:
> The new netlink interface allows to add NAT directly to a conntrack entry.
> If it is used when the moudule nf-nat-ipv4 is not loaded in, it results in 
> crash:
> BUG: scheduling while atomic
> It is in the kernels 2.6.28 and 2.6.28.1 in the function 
> ctnetlink_parse_nat_setup(): it calls request_module() which causes the 
> problem. If the module is already loaded, then there is no problem.


Thanks for the report. Does this patch fix it?

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