netdev - Re: __pskb_pull_tail oops from 2.6.35

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Date:	Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:15:00 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: __pskb_pull_tail oops from 2.6.35

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 04:08:04PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
 > From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
 > Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:03:28 -0400
 > 
 > > A user just reported this on a fairly old kernel (running the latest -longterm patch).
 > > I had a look through net/core/skbuff.c since 2.6.35, and didn't see anything obvious.
 > > Does this look familiar to anyone ? 
 > 
 > I would say that something far outside of __pskb_pull_tail() is corrupting the
 > SKB state.  He has a bunch of netfilter stuff loaded so the possibilities are
 > endless :-)
 > 
 > Any chance to figure out exactly what NULL dereference happens inside of
 > __pskb_pull_tail()?

It looks like it died in put_page..

<1>[  262.574991] IP: [<ffffffff810dca57>] put_page+0x10/0x7c

which is only called in one place..

1267         for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++) {
1268                 if (skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].size <= eat) {
1269                         put_page(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
1270                         eat -= skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].size;
1271                 } else {


	Dave

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