A recent commit replaced calls to nf_conntrack_put() with calls
to nf_ct_put(). nf_conntrack_put() permitted the caller to pass
null without side effects, while nf_ct_put() performs WARN_ON()
and proceeds to try and de-reference the pointer. ovs-vswitchd
triggers the warning on startup:

[   22.178881] WARNING: CPU: 69 PID: 2157 at 
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h:176 __ovs_ct_lookup+0x4e2/0x6a0 
[openvswitch]
...
[   22.213573] Call Trace:
[   22.214318]  <TASK>
[   22.215064]  ovs_ct_execute+0x49c/0x7f0 [openvswitch]
...

Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: 408bdcfce8df ("net: prefer nf_ct_put instead of nf_conntrack_put")
Signed-off-by: Mark Mielke <[email protected]>
---
 net/openvswitch/conntrack.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
index 4a947c13c813..69972f037d21 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/conntrack.c
@@ -970,7 +970,8 @@ static int __ovs_ct_lookup(struct net *net, struct 
sw_flow_key *key,
                /* Associate skb with specified zone. */
                if (tmpl) {
                        ct = nf_ct_get(skb, &ctinfo);
-                       nf_ct_put(ct);
+                       if (ct)
+                               nf_ct_put(ct);
                        nf_conntrack_get(&tmpl->ct_general);
                        nf_ct_set(skb, tmpl, IP_CT_NEW);
                }
@@ -1339,8 +1340,8 @@ int ovs_ct_clear(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sw_flow_key 
*key)
        struct nf_conn *ct;
 
        ct = nf_ct_get(skb, &ctinfo);
-
-       nf_ct_put(ct);
+       if (ct)
+               nf_ct_put(ct);
        nf_ct_set(skb, NULL, IP_CT_UNTRACKED);
        ovs_ct_fill_key(skb, key, false);
 
-- 
2.35.1

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