netdev - Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - several bugs and a crash

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Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:50:09 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter@...r.kernel.org,
	coreteam@...filter.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - several bugs and a crash

Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Still, X came up fine, I could log in (Gnome feeling subjectively
> a bit sluggish), call up a web page from the Internet in Firefox,
> and start perusing the logs, when the whole system froze: neither
> mouse nor keyboard would react anymore, and only the Wind^Wreset
> button would put me back in control. After rebooting into the
> previous, non-mm kernel I found this in the syslog:
>
> Feb 20 17:22:40 xenon kernel: [   48.180297] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: ntpdate/3562
> Feb 20 17:22:40 xenon kernel: [   48.180297] caller is __nf_conntrack_find+0x9b/0xeb [nf_conntrack]
> Feb 20 17:22:40 xenon kernel: [   48.180297] Pid: 3562, comm: ntpdate Not tainted 2.6.25-rc2-mm1-testing #1
> Feb 20 17:22:40 xenon kernel: [   48.180297]  [<c02015b9>] debug_smp_processor_id+0x99/0xb0
> Feb 20 17:22:40 xenon kernel: [   48.180297]  [<fac643a7>] __nf_conntrack_find+0x9b/0xeb [nf_conntrack]

I guess the cause for this is a combination of preemtible
RCU and conntrack using RCU since 2.6.25-rc. Using
NF_CT_STAT_INC_ATOMIC should fix it, but I'd prefer
to have a fix that doesn't increase overhead when regular
RCU is used.

I'll see if I can find a better way to fix this tommorrow.

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