Re: "Kernel bug detected [...] nf_ct_del_from_dying_or_unconfirmed_list"

[Florian Westphal <fw-HFFVJYpyMKqzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>]

Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing-djzkFPsfvsizQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> This only happens upon sending a SIGTERM to the network manager
> "netifd" (so upon network shutdown). And only if the node is connected
> to mesh of reasonable size, so if there is a certain amount of
> multicast traffic for the multicast-to-multi-unicast patch to work on.

Does this still trigger when you do

nf_reset(newskb);

after skb_copy()?

> One difference is that the broadcast flooding adds a bit of
> delay between each transmission. Which the multicast-to-multi-unicast
> doesn't.

Are those transmits done asynchronously?

conntrack assumes exclusive access to skb->nfct if the conntrack
entry isn't in main hash table.

(i.e, when nf_ct_is_confirmed returns false).

> "In nfqueue, two consecutive skbuffs may race to create the conntrack
>  entry. Hence, the one that loses the race gets dropped due to clash in
>  the insertion into the hashes from the nf_conntrack_confirm() path."
> 
> This patch is only part of >= 4.18, so not part of the firmware we use
> yet. Could this issue somehow be related?

Possible, but I don't think its likely.
In the nfquee case there is asynchronous processing, but
no skb can share the same conntrack entry unless the entry is already
in the conntrack hash table.

> Other than that I was wondering whether we might be missing to
> reset something after skb_copy()-ing. We do a "skb->protocol =
> htons(ETH_P_BATMAN)" right before the dev_queue_xmit(skb) call in
> batman-adv which sends the encapsulated frame into the
> mesh. And we do a nf_reset(skb) after decapsulating a frame
> received from the mesh. But maybe that is not enough?

I suggest nf_reset() on xmit, if you can be sure that the xmit
won't occur back-to-self (netns case is fine, as skb scrubbing
resets skb nfct anyway) and the skb isn't on a rexmit list somewhere.
(clone is fine, only shared skb would break).