netdev - Re: RESEND: Easily reproducible kernel panic due to netdev all_adj

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Date:	Mon, 28 Mar 2016 23:31:34 +0200
From:	Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@...verse-factory.net>
To:	Andrew Collins <acollins@...dlepoint.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RESEND: Easily reproducible kernel panic due to netdev
 all_adj_list refcnt handling

On 03/25/2016 11:10 PM, Andrew Collins wrote:
> On 03/25/2016 02:43 PM, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
>> We've tried your patch, and it changes the symptoms a bit, but doesn't fix
>> the panic. I've attached kernel logs of the crash both before and after
>> applying the patch.
>>
>> One note: I did not reproduce this issue myself, it was first reported in
>> [1], and then forwarded to the batman-adv issue tracker [2] by me.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon/issues/680
>> [2] https://www.open-mesh.org/issues/247
> 
> On the off chance it helps, the version of the patch I integrated locally
> takes a somewhat different approach
> than the one I sent to the mailing list (propagates adj_list refcnts). 
> I've attached it in case it's useful.
> 
> I haven't submitted this upstream yet as it's still rather ugly.  I'm of
> the opinion that the whole "every device
> knows every upperdev and lowerdev in its tree" model is rather broken, and
> the patch is just working around
> a design that needs some rework.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew Collins

It's ugly, but it seems to help. No crashes so far with the new version of
your patch.

Thanks,
Matthias



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