netdev - Re: ax25_recvmsg lockup

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Date:	Sat, 3 Aug 2013 20:25:20 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ax25_recvmsg lockup

On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 01:46:04PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
 > From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
 > Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:28:03 -0400
 > 
 > > With the right arguments from userspace, reading from an ax25 socket
 > > can spend long enough in the kernel that it triggers the softlockup
 > > detector.  I hit a bunch of these traces in a trinity run that I
 > > left running over the weekend.
 > 
 > I looked at this a bunch of times and am still mystified how this
 > can happen.
 > 
 > It should be simple to diagnose since I doubt there is any real
 > AX25 traffic going to these sockets.
 > 
 > Any chance you can figure out what the arguments are that cause
 > this problem?  That'll probably help a lot, thanks!

I've not seen it in a while, I'll have a think about what I can
do to try and provoke it more reliably on Monday.

	Dave

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