Houcheng Lin <houch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When system is under heavy loading, the __nfulnl_send() may may failed
> to put nlmsg into skbuf of nfulnl_instance. If not clear the skbuff on failed,
> the __nfulnl_send() will still try to put next nlmsg onto this half-full skbuf
> and cause the user program can never receive packet.
> 
> This patch fix this issue by releasing skbuf immediately after nlmst put
> failed.

Could you please try this patch on top of this one and see if the
WARN_ON goes away?

Thanks

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
@@ -649,7 +649,8 @@ nfulnl_log_packet(struct net *net,
                + nla_total_size(sizeof(u_int32_t))     /* gid */
                + nla_total_size(plen)                  /* prefix */
                + nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nfulnl_msg_packet_hw))
-               + nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nfulnl_msg_packet_timestamp));
+               + nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nfulnl_msg_packet_timestamp))
+               + nla_total_size(sizeof(struct nfgenmsg));      /* NLMSG_DONE */
 
        if (in && skb_mac_header_was_set(skb)) {
                size +=   nla_total_size(skb->dev->hard_header_len)
@@ -692,8 +693,7 @@ nfulnl_log_packet(struct net *net,
                goto unlock_and_release;
        }
 
-       if (inst->skb &&
-           size > skb_tailroom(inst->skb) - sizeof(struct nfgenmsg)) {
+       if (inst->skb && size > skb_tailroom(inst->skb)) {
                /* either the queue len is too high or we don't have
                 * enough room in the skb left. flush to userspace. */
                __nfulnl_flush(inst);
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