netdev - Re: oops in pskb_expand_head

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Date:	Mon, 18 Nov 2013 23:59:45 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Michele Baldessari <michele@...syn.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oops in pskb_expand_head - 3.11.6

Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:25:43PM CET, hannes@...essinduktion.org wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:24:36AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:19:22AM CET, michele@...syn.org wrote:
>> >Hi Hannes,
>> >
>> >On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 08:18:10PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> >> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:11:50AM +0000, Michele Baldessari wrote:
>> >> > Hi Hannes,
>> >> > 
>> >> > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:42:23AM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> >> > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:16:15PM +0000, Michele Baldessari wrote:
>> >> > > > Two oops like the following were reported in Fedora 19 - kernel 3.11.6:
>> >> > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015905
>> >> > > 
>> >> > > I have not followed that issue that closely, but could you try linus tree
>> >> > > or net-next?
>> >> > > 
>> >> > > Maybe those two patches improve the situation:
>> >> > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9037c3579a277f3a23ba476664629fda8c35f7c4
>> >> > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6aafeef03b9d9ecf255f3a80ed85ee070260e1ae
>> >> > > 
>> >> > indeed a current kernel seems to fix the crash (according to the
>> >> > reporters). I'll see if I manage to bisect exactly.
>> >> 
>> >> Great, if you confirm this we can ask David if he adds the commits to the
>> >> -stable queue.
>> >
>> >I can confirm that 6aafeef03b9d9ecf255f3a80ed85ee070260e1ae "netfilter:
>> >push reasm skb through instead of original frag skbs" fixes the oops
>> >mentioned in this thread. I've applied it to a 3.11.8 kernel and it
>> >fixed the crash. I had to slightly tweak it as it does not apply 100%
>> >cleanly due to 795aa6ef6a1aba99050735eadd0c2341b789b53b " netfilter:
>> >pass hook ops to hookfn". 
>> >
>> >So definitely -stable material.
>> >
>> >Not sure if you also want to add 9037c3579a277f3a23ba476664629fda8c35f7c4 
>> >"ip6_output: fragment outgoing reassembled skb properly". It did not
>> >have any impact in this particular scenario.
>> 
>> It goes hand in hand with 6aafeef03b9d9ecf255f3a80ed85ee070260e1ae.
>> Without 9037c3579a277f3a23ba476664629fda8c35f7c4 skbs that reasm len is
>> < MTU would not get fragmented which is not desired.
>
>Jiri, David, do you see problems adding this to stable? We got a lot of
>reports because of exactly those kind of crashes in the past.

At this point, I do not see any reason why not to do it.

>
>Greetings,
>
>  Hannes
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