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Message-Id: <200705010520.10097.stefan.wenk@gmx.at>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 05:20:10 +0200
From: Stefan Wenk <stefan.wenk@....at>
To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
"bugme-daemon@...nel-bugs.osdl.org"
<bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8405] New: pppd does stops compresion with "Lost compression sync"
On Monday 30 April 2007 21:12, Stefan Wenk wrote:
> On Monday 30 April 2007 15:31, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 14:08 +0200, Stefan Wenk wrote:
> > > On Sunday 29 April 2007 23:20, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > (switch to email - please retain all ccs)
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:01:25 -0700 bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
>
> wrote:
> > > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8405
> > > > >
> > > > > Here is the log vor /var/log/messages:
> > > > >
> > > > > Apr 29 16:53:34 linux kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module
> > > > > registered Apr 29 16:53:47 linux pppd[9090]: pppd 2.4.4 started by
> > > > > root, uid 0 Apr 29 16:53:47 linux pppd[9090]: Using interface ppp0
> > > > > Apr 29 16:53:47 linux pppd[9090]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/9
> > > > > Apr 29 16:53:47 linux pppd[9090]: kernel does not support PPP
> > > > > filtering Apr 29 16:53:47 linux pppd[9090]: Deflate (15)
> > > > > compression enabled Apr 29 16:53:47 linux pppd[9090]: Cannot
> > > > > determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Apr 29 16:53:47 linux
> > > > > pppd[9090]: local IP address 192.168.3.2 Apr 29 16:53:47 linux
> > > > > pppd[9090]: remote IP address 192.168.3.1 Apr 29 16:54:03 linux
> > > > > kernel: z_decompress0: inflate returned -5 () Apr 29 16:54:03 linux
> > > > > pppd[9090]: PPPIOCGFLAGS flags: c030c0 Apr 29 16:54:03 linux
> > > > > pppd[9090]: Lost compression sync: disabling compression
> > > > >
> > > > > I had a look at the kernel patch of 2.6.18 - the
> > > > > lib/zlib/zlib_inflate was changed a lot and for me it looks to be
> > > > > the reason of the problem.
> > > >
> > > > If you're referring to 4f3865fb57a04db7cca068fed1c15badc064a302,
> > > > "zlib_inflate: Upgrade library code to a recent version" then that
> > > > was mainly a zlib_inflate change, not a zlib_deflate change.
> > > >
> > > > But yes, I'd say that this patch might well have been the cause.
> > > >
> > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/zlib-backout.patch is a backout patch
> > > > against 2.6.21. If you apply that to 2.6.21 does it make ppp work
> > > > again?
> > >
> > > thanks for this backout patch. I have applied it to 2.6.21 and now pppd
> > > is working with deflate again.
> >
> > The key line of that log is
> > "Apr 29 16:54:03 linux kernel: z_decompress0: inflate returned -5 ()"
> >
> > linux/zlib.h says:
> >
> > #define Z_BUF_ERROR (-5)
> >
> > so somehow we're triggering a buffer error...
> >
> > Looking at zlib_inflate() in lib/zlib_inflate/inflate.c, it seems that
> > error only occurs if we had success (Z_OK) but no remaining input/output
> > space. I suspect you can just have ppp_deflate ignore that "error" code
> > and it might just work.
> >
> > Can you try the following patch:
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6.20/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.20.orig/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.c 2007-02-04
> > 18:44:54.000000000 +0000 +++
> > linux-2.6.20/drivers/net/ppp_deflate.c 2007-04-30 14:27:08.000000000
> > +0100 @@ -487,12 +487,16 @@ int z_decompress(void *arg, unsigned cha
> > */
> > for (;;) {
> > r = zlib_inflate(&state->strm, Z_PACKET_FLUSH);
> > - if (r != Z_OK) {
> > + if ((r != Z_OK) && (r != Z_BUF_ERROR)) {
> > if (state->debug)
> > printk(KERN_DEBUG "z_decompress%d: inflate returned %d (%s)\n",
> > state->unit, r, (state->strm.msg? state->strm.msg: ""));
> > return DECOMP_FATALERROR;
> > }
> > + if (r == Z_BUF_ERROR) {
> > + printk(KERN_DEBUG "z_decompress%d: Would have triggered an error as
> > inflate returned %d (%s)\n", + state->unit, r,
> > (state->strm.msg? state->strm.msg: "")); + }
> > if (state->strm.avail_out != 0)
> > break; /* all done */
> > if (decode_proto) {
> >
> > This should continue but print some debug output when the problem
> > occurs.
> >
> > Richard
>
> Actually I have tried that before writing this report - it does not work.
> The behaviour is not deterministic. When I'm accessing a web-server via the
> null-modem cable and I see with this modification the following on the
> kernel log:
>
> z_decompress0: Would have triggered an error as inflate returned -5 ()
> ...... repeated ....
> z_decompress0: Would have triggered an error as inflate returned -5 ()
> z_incomp0: inflateIncomp returned -3 ()
> z_decompress0: Would have triggered an error as inflate returned -5 ()
>
> What is more interesting is that the pppd server log is logging errors.
> There are LCP EchoReq and EchoRep. Later a LCP ProtoRej messages occurs and
> then the connection is broken. I have attached a pppdump file of the client
> side if it helps. This file can be read e.g. by wireshark.
I should have mentioned that I have made some other modifications in order to
see the kernel logging. This was because I could not find the documentation
how to turn debugging on for ppp_deflate and because I'm only seeing printk
of type KERN_ERR and not those with KERN_DEBUG. So I might be missing some
additional KERN_DEBUG loggings. If somebody can point me to the documentation
how to get KERN_DEBUG to the log file I can make the test again.
Here is the full diff
--- ppp_deflate.c.orig 2007-04-23 20:47:08.000000000 +0200
+++ ppp_deflate.c 2007-04-30 19:38:19.000000000 +0200
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static int z_comp_init(void *arg, unsign
state->seqno = 0;
state->unit = unit;
- state->debug = debug;
+ state->debug = 1;
zlib_deflateReset(&state->strm);
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ static int z_decomp_init(void *arg, unsi
state->seqno = 0;
state->unit = unit;
- state->debug = debug;
+ state->debug = 1;
state->mru = mru;
zlib_inflateReset(&state->strm);
@@ -487,12 +487,18 @@ int z_decompress(void *arg, unsigned cha
*/
for (;;) {
r = zlib_inflate(&state->strm, Z_PACKET_FLUSH);
- if (r != Z_OK) {
+// if (r != Z_OK) {
+ if ((r != Z_OK) && (r != Z_BUF_ERROR)) {
if (state->debug)
- printk(KERN_DEBUG "z_decompress%d: inflate
returned %d (%s)\n",
+ printk(KERN_ERR "z_decompress%d: inflate
returned %d (%s)\n",
state->unit, r, (state->strm.msg?
state->strm.msg: ""));
return DECOMP_FATALERROR;
}
+ if (r == Z_BUF_ERROR) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "z_decompress%d: Would have
triggered an error as inflate returned %d (%s)\n",
+ state->unit, r, (state->strm.msg?
state->strm.msg: ""));
+ }
-
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