netdev - tcp_mark_head_lost warning in Linux kernel 3.10

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Date:	Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:39:54 -0800
From:	Vinson Lee <vlee@...pensource.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: tcp_mark_head_lost warning in Linux kernel 3.10

Hi.

We hit this networking tcp_mark_head_lost warning in Linux kernel 3.10.

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WARNING: at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2262 tcp_mark_head_lost+0x1aa/0x1dd()
Modules linked in: netconsole configfs xt_DSCP iptable_mangle
cpufreq_ondemand ipv6 ppdev parport_pc lp parport tcp_diag inet_diag
ipmi_si ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support
acpi_cpufreq freq_table mperf coretemp kvm_intel kvm crc32c_intel
ghash_clmulni_intel microcode serio_raw i2c_i801 lpc_ich mfd_core igb
i2c_algo_bit i2c_core ptp pps_core ioatdma dca wmi
CPU: 1 PID: 16561 Not tainted 3.10.50 #1
 0000000000000000 ffff88085fc23948 ffffffff814a4094 ffff88085fc23980
 ffffffff8103cbf9 0000000000000000 ffff8807b644b200 0000000000000001
 ffff880764e1ca40 000000004e9c4970 ffff88085fc23990 ffffffff8103ccbf
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff814a4094>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
 [<ffffffff8103cbf9>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7d
 [<ffffffff8103ccbf>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c
 [<ffffffff81434c61>] tcp_mark_head_lost+0x1aa/0x1dd
 [<ffffffff814367fc>] tcp_update_scoreboard+0x4f/0x13f
 [<ffffffff81438beb>] tcp_fastretrans_alert+0x736/0x7be
 [<ffffffff81439644>] tcp_ack+0x95e/0xb47
 [<ffffffff81439be6>] tcp_rcv_established+0xde/0x442
 [<ffffffff81442cab>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x1e6/0x3e8
 [<ffffffff8144371e>] tcp_v4_rcv+0x293/0x52c
 [<ffffffff81425e6a>] ? NF_HOOK_THRESH.constprop.11+0x53/0x53
 [<ffffffff8142d562>] ? __inet_lookup_listener+0xfa/0x17f
 [<ffffffff81425f4a>] ip_local_deliver_finish+0xe0/0x155
 [<ffffffff81425e6a>] ? NF_HOOK_THRESH.constprop.11+0x53/0x53
 [<ffffffff81425e48>] NF_HOOK_THRESH.constprop.11+0x31/0x53
 [<ffffffff814260ef>] ip_local_deliver+0x40/0x52
 [<ffffffff81425d50>] ip_rcv_finish+0x274/0x2b6
 [<ffffffff81425adc>] ? inet_del_offload+0x3d/0x3d
 [<ffffffff81425e48>] NF_HOOK_THRESH.constprop.11+0x31/0x53
 [<ffffffff81426324>] ip_rcv+0x223/0x267
 [<ffffffff813f76b4>] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x435/0x4a7
 [<ffffffff8107bab8>] ? timekeeping_get_ns.constprop.10+0x11/0x36
 [<ffffffff813f773e>] __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x5a
 [<ffffffff813f8813>] netif_receive_skb+0x40/0x75
 [<ffffffff813f8f94>] napi_gro_receive+0x3e/0x80
 [<ffffffffa004a097>] igb_clean_rx_irq+0x67e/0x69e [igb]
 [<ffffffffa004a425>] igb_poll+0x36e/0x5b0 [igb]
 [<ffffffff813ea49a>] ? __sk_mem_reclaim+0x2f/0x84
 [<ffffffff8143ef76>] ? tcp_delack_timer_handler+0x2e/0x19c
 [<ffffffff813f8a61>] net_rx_action+0xcf/0x196
 [<ffffffff8106870c>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x42/0xc7
 [<ffffffff8104371d>] __do_softirq+0xd5/0x1f4
 [<ffffffff814b01bc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
 [<ffffffff81003ecd>] do_softirq+0x33/0x6e
 [<ffffffff81043931>] irq_exit+0x51/0x93
 [<ffffffff814b086e>] do_IRQ+0x8e/0xa5
 [<ffffffff814a85aa>] common_interrupt+0x6a/0x6a
 <EOI>
---[ end trace 8b2ed2c5c443e39d ]---


net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
  2200  /* Detect loss in event "A" above by marking head of queue up as lost.
  2201   * For FACK or non-SACK(Reno) senders, the first "packets"
number of segments
  2202   * are considered lost. For RFC3517 SACK, a segment is
considered lost if it
  2203   * has at least tp->reordering SACKed seqments above it;
"packets" refers to
  2204   * the maximum SACKed segments to pass before reaching this limit.
  2205   */
  2206  static void tcp_mark_head_lost(struct sock *sk, int packets,
int mark_head)
  2207  {
[...]
  2262          tcp_verify_left_out(tp);
  2263  }

include/net/tcp.h
   936  /* Use define here intentionally to get WARN_ON location shown
at the caller */
   937  #define tcp_verify_left_out(tp) WARN_ON(tcp_left_out(tp) >
tp->packets_out)

Cheers,
Vinson
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