Unable to restart/reload firewalld on system with Intel Omnipath or Mellanox Infiniband driver

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Issue

  • Restarting firewalld hangs. Once hung, the only way to bring firewalld back is to reboot the system.
  • rmmod nf_conntrack causes 100% CPU usage
  • dmesg shows messages similar to the following:
[889005.667785] nf_nat: Unknown symbol nf_ct_invert_tuplepr (err -2)
[889005.667803] nf_nat: Unknown symbol nf_ct_seqadj_set (err -2)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Infiniband hardware (either Mellanox or IBM's Omnipath)

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