linux-kernel - Re: oops in tcp_xmit_retransmit

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Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:55:27 +0200
From:	Lennart Schulte <lennart.schulte@...s.rwth-aachen.de>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Fehrmann, Henning" <henning.fehrmann@....mpg.de>,
	Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert@....mpg.de>
Subject: Re: oops in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue() w/ v2.6.32.15

Since tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue also gets skb == NULL I'm pretty sure it 
is the same bug.
Up to now I only experienced the problem with ACK loss (without ACK loss 
the test ran about 30min without problems, with ACK loss it had paniced 
within 10min).
The data sender only has a HTB queue for traffic shaping (set to 20 
Mbit/s). The ACK loss is done by another router.
The setup looks like this. This way it seems to be the most realistic.

o sender with HTB
|
|
o netem queue for forward path delay
|
o netem queue for a queue limit
|
o netem queue for backward path delay
|
o netem queue for ACK loss
|
|
o receiver with HTB

Perhaps now it is a little big clearer.


On 15.07.2010 14:05, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le jeudi 15 juillet 2010 à 13:58 +0200, Lennart Schulte a écrit :
>    
>> I'm testing new reordering algorithms in a virtual testbed, that is the
>> nodes are emulated with xen and all the network parameters can be tuned
>> with queues.
>> With one of the algorithms I also got tracebacks which include
>> tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue. It only happens with ACK loss. The kernel
>> version however is 2.6.31.
>> When I read this thread I tried the debug patch and got the following:
>>
>> [ 2754.413150] NULL head, pkts 0
>> [ 2754.413156] Errors caught so far 1
>>
>> Hope that is of any help.
>>      
> Not sure I understand.
>
> Are you saying you reproduce same tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue()  bug, with
> a special tc qdisc/class droppping some ACK frames ?
>
> Could it be some sched problem and incorrect return codes in case of
> congestion ?
>    
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