netdev - Re: seq_read bugs with ipmr

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Date:	Sat, 8 Nov 2008 05:52:56 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: seq_read bugs with ipmr

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:02:37AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 01:22:08AM +0100, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> > running a bunch of network related stresstests (isic, isicng, ...) 
> > and trying to read all files in /proc afterwards gave me two
> > oopses. I was able to reproduce them on another box with
> > a different config. I was able to reproduce this on 2.6.24 too,
> > so this is no regression. The icmpsic is version 0.06. 
> > The minimal testcase to trigger this:
> > 
> > ------------8<----------------
> > #!/bin/bash
> > 
> > icmpsic -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p 100000
> > 
> > find /proc/net/ | xargs cat > /dev/null
> > 
> > cat /proc/net/ip_mr_cache
> > cat /proc/net/ip_mr_vif
> > ------------8<----------------
> > 
> > 
> > root@...puter-desktop:~/testing# cat /proc/338/net/ip_mr_cache
> > 
> > [ 1572.702100] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000001c1
> > [ 1572.702588] IP: [<c05942c6>] ipmr_mfc_seq_show+0x26/0xf0
> 
> Reproduced.

	icmpsic -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p 100000
	cat /proc/net/snmp				# sic
	cat /proc/net/ip_mr_cache

mfc_cache_array is full of small integers

	[0] = 0x1a8
	[1] = 0x1a9

and so on.
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