Re: [Regression] stress-ng udp-flood causes kernel panic on Ampere Altra

[Kajetan Puchalski <kajetan.puchalski@arm.com>]

> > > Sorry, but I have absolutely no context here. We have a handy document
> > > describing the differences between atomic_t and refcount_t:
> > > 
> > > 	Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst
> > > 
> > > What else do you need to know?
> > 
> > Hmm, and I see a tonne of *_inc_not_zero() conversions in 719774377622
> > ("netfilter: conntrack: convert to refcount_t api") which mean that you
> > no longer have ordering to subsequent reads in the absence of an address
> > dependency.
> 
> I think the patch above needs auditing with the relaxed behaviour in mind,
> but for the specific crash reported here possibly something like the diff
> below?
> 
> Will
> 
> --->8
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> index 082a2fd8d85b..5ad9fcc84269 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
> @@ -1394,6 +1394,7 @@ static unsigned int early_drop_list(struct net *net,
>                  * already fired or someone else deleted it. Just drop ref
>                  * and move to next entry.
>                  */
> +               smp_rmb();      /* XXX: Why? */
>                 if (net_eq(nf_ct_net(tmp), net) &&
>                     nf_ct_is_confirmed(tmp) &&
>                     nf_ct_delete(tmp, 0, 0))
> 

With this patch applied the issue goes away as well. The test runs fine
well beyond where it would crash previously so looks good, thanks!