netdev - Re: Bug, kernel panic, NULL dereference , cleanup_once / icmp_route_lookup.clone.19.clone / nat , 2.6.39-rc7-git11

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Date:	Wed, 18 May 2011 12:53:33 +0300
From:	Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@...p.net.lb>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug, kernel panic, NULL dereference , cleanup_once / icmp_route_lookup.clone.19.clone / nat , 2.6.39-rc7-git11

 On Wed, 18 May 2011 11:37:51 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mercredi 18 mai 2011 à 12:27 +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko a écrit :
>> On Wed, 18 May 2011 01:16:29 +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote:
>> > Just got recently. 32Bit, PPPoE NAS, shapers, firewall, NAT
>> > Kernel i mention in subject, 2.6.39-rc7-git11
>> > If required i can give more information
>> >
>> > sharanal (sorry for ugly name) is libpcap based traffic analyser,
>> > sure userspace
>> >
>>  Here is some info, i hope it will be a little useful
>>
>>  (gdb)  l *(cleanup_once + 0x49)
>>  0xc02e85cc is in cleanup_once (include/linux/list.h:88).
>>  83       * This is only for internal list manipulation where we 
>> know
>>  84       * the prev/next entries already!
>>  85       */
>>  86      static inline void __list_del(struct list_head * prev, 
>> struct
>>  list_head * next)
>>  87      {
>>  88              next->prev = prev;
>>  89              prev->next = next;
>>  90      }
>>  91
>>  92      /**
>>
>>  (gdb)  l *(inet_getpeer + 0x2ab)
>>  0xc02e8ae8 is in inet_getpeer (net/ipv4/inetpeer.c:530).
>>  525             if (base->total >= inet_peer_threshold)
>>  526                     /* Remove one less-recently-used entry. */
>>  527                     cleanup_once(0, stack);
>>  528
>>  529             return p;
>>  530     }
>>  531
>>  532     static int compute_total(void)
>>  533     {
>>  534             return v4_peers.total + v6_peers.total;
>>
>
> I really begin to think we have a bug here...
>
> In previous reports, I suggested to use slub_nomerge because I 
> thought
> one corruption from another kernel layer was going on.
>
> (inetpeer was using 64 bytes objects). But now that inetpeer objects 
> are
> bigger and sit in another kmemcache, its bad news.
>
> Could you try this, and eventually add some SLUB debugging stuff as
> well ?

 Yes, i will try. I should enable SLUB debugging only, or also anything 
 else?

 But possible it will take time to reproduce bug, seems it is occuring 
 rare. With 2.6.39 release i will rollout update to few hundreds PPPoE's, 
 maybe it will increase chances to get information.

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