netdev - Re: __pskb_pull_tail oops from 2.6.35

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Message-ID: <20111003161346.GA30201@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:13:46 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: __pskb_pull_tail oops from 2.6.35

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:37:19PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
 
 > >  > > It looks like it died in put_page..
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > <1>[  262.574991] IP: [<ffffffff810dca57>] put_page+0x10/0x7c
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > which is only called in one place..
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > 1267         for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++) {
 > >  > > 1268                 if (skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].size <= eat) {
 > >  > > 1269                         put_page(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
 > >  > > 1270                         eat -= skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].size;
 > >  > > 1271                 } else {
 > >  > 
 > >  > That's a pretty serious corruption, all frag array entries from 0 to
 > >  > nr_frags should have valid, non-NULL page pointers.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Maybe a LRO/GRO bug?  There were a couple of those.
 > > 
 > > I'll see if I can talk him into trying a self-built kernel, as we're not
 > > rebasing f14 at this point in its life-cycle. If it turns out to still affect
 > > 3.x, I'll bring it up again.
 > 
 > This could be a struct skb_shared_info -> nr_frags corruption
 > 
 > (Something was overflowing skb head and overflowing very beginning of
 > skb_shared_info in rare circumstances)
 > 
 > We had such bug in the past, I cant remember details right now.

Just to close this discussion, the user reported that he built a 3.1.0rc7 kernel,
and couldn't reproduce this bug any more, so it was something that got fixed
that didn't make it to the longterm stable releases.

	Dave
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