netdev - Re: 3.3.0, 3.4-rc1 reproducible tun Oops

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Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:18:53 +0400
From:	Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>
To:	Simon Kirby <sim@...tway.ca>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3.3.0, 3.4-rc1 reproducible tun Oops

17.04.2012 06:08, Simon Kirby пишет:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 04:41:04AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>> Hmm, is it happening if you remove the nvidia module ?
>>
>> If yes, please try to add slub_debug=FZPU
>
> Finally got annoyed enough at this to bisect it. It doesn't happen every
> time and I got a bit confused, but I finally tracked it down to:
>
> 1ab5ecb90cb6a3df1476e052f76a6e8f6511cb3d is the first bad commit
> commit 1ab5ecb90cb6a3df1476e052f76a6e8f6511cb3d
> Author: Stanislav Kinsbursky<skinsbursky@...allels.com>
> Date:   Mon Mar 12 02:59:41 2012 +0000
>
>      tun: don't hold network namespace by tun sockets
>
>      v3: added previously removed sock_put() to the tun_release() callback, because
>      sk_release_kernel() doesn't drop the socket reference.
>
>      v2: sk_release_kernel() used for socket release. Dummy tun_release() is
>      required for sk_release_kernel() --->  sock_release() --->  sock->ops->release()
>      call.
>
>      TUN was designed to destroy it's socket on network namesapce shutdown. But this
>      will never happen for persistent device, because it's socket holds network
>      namespace.
>      This patch removes of holding network namespace by TUN socket and replaces it
>      by creating socket in init_net and then changing it's net it to desired one. On
>      shutdown socket is moved back to init_net prior to final put.
>
>      Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky<skinsbursky@...allels.com>
>      Signed-off-by: David S. Miller<davem@...emloft.net>
>
> ...With this reverted on top of 3.4-rc3, I no longer see crashes when I
> keep making and breaking the SSH tunnel while running "vmstat 1" in an
> SSH session over a socket that is running through that tunnel.
>
> Simon-

Hi, Simon.
Could you please try to apply the patch below on top of your the tree (with 
1ab5ecb90cb6a3df1476e052f76a6e8f6511cb3d applied) and check does it fix the problem:

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index bb8c72c..1fc4622 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -1540,13 +1540,10 @@ static int tun_chr_close(struct inode *inode, struct 
file *file)
  			if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED)
  				unregister_netdevice(dev);
  			rtnl_unlock();
-		}
+		} else
+			sock_put(tun->socket.sk);
  	}

-	tun = tfile->tun;
-	if (tun)
-		sock_put(tun->socket.sk);
-
  	put_net(tfile->net);
  	kfree(tfile);

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