netdev - Re: [netfilter-core] [lkp] [netfilter] 68263ddb47: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1225 at net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_seqadj.c:232 nf_ct_seq

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Date:   Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:18:27 +0200
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     Gao Feng <fgao@...ai8.com>
Cc:     kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        coreteam@...filter.org,
        Netfilter Developer Mailing List 
        <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>, lkp@...org
Subject: Re: [netfilter-core] [lkp] [netfilter] 68263ddb47: WARNING: CPU: 0
 PID: 1225 at net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_seqadj.c:232
 nf_ct_seq_offset+0x7a/0x9a

Gao Feng <fgao@...ai8.com> wrote:
> > [   23.465616] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [   23.466477] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1225 at net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_seqadj.c:232
> > nf_ct_seq_offset+0x7a/0x9a
> > [   23.468458] Missing nfct_seqadj_ext_add() setup call
> >
> 
> It should be that nf_ct_add_synproxy failed and the seqadj extentision is
> not added.

Note that nfct_synproxy_ext_add always returns NULL if
CONFIG_NETFILTER_SYNPROXY=n

The warning should also be removed.

> When nf_ct_add_synproxy fails, the init_conntrack fails too and return
> ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM). In this case, the packet should be dropped directly, and
> should not be processed by the latter codes.

This means the commit breaks conntrack if SYNPROXY=n