netdev - Re: Panic with demuxed ipv4 multicast udp sockets on 4.0.4

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:41:44 +0000
From:	Gregory Hoggarth <Gregory.Hoggarth@...iedtelesis.co.nz>
To:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	"alexgartrell@...il.com" <alexgartrell@...il.com>,
	"eric.dumazet@...il.com" <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Panic with demuxed ipv4 multicast udp sockets on 4.0.4

Hi,

My company has also started having what appears to be the same problem, since we upgraded our embedded system to 
linux kernel 3.16.

I tried applying the suggested fix of READ_ONCE (and also had to add in the necessary code to compiler.h as 3.16
didn't have it) and unfortunately it did not fix the issue at all.

Unfortunately we do not have an easy reproduction method, and do not know precisely what is going on in the system
when the issue occurs. We know it is a multicast UDP packet but that is about it. For us, the crash happens during
a critical stage in our system initialisation, making additional debugging and instrumentation difficult. Our 
reproduction rate is approximately 1 out of 100 test runs; testing overnight we will usually see 3-5 instances of 
the crash happening. All our attempts to increase the reproduction rate, or reproduce the issue in a simpler/more 
controlled way have failed.

Because we have customised the linux kernel, in some places radically, we assumed this was just a problem only we 
were seeing, so we were trying to fix it ourselves. Now that this appears to be a generic problem upstream, we've 
simply disabled UDP early demux in our system (since it's a new optimisation that we have lived without up till 
now) and will wait for this issue to be fixed upstream instead.

So I'm sharing the debug patch I've written to help gather data on what is going on in the system, and some
of the output we've gotten from the debug, in case this is useful for anyone else who is seeing this problem or
would like to try and fix it.

Feel free to ask questions, I'm not sure how much help I can be but will do my best. We'll be happy to assist in
testing any proposed fixes. I also have some more examples of kernel oops and debug output if that could be useful, 
although the debug is from earlier iterations of the patch so that historical output is not as detailed as the 
output generated by the latest version of the patch attached here.

Thanks,
Greg Hoggarth
View attachment "dst-debug-tracking.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (12268 bytes)

View attachment "dst-read_once.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (3400 bytes)

Download attachment "example debug output" of type "application/octet-stream" (12449 bytes)