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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:58:59 -0500
From: Carol Soto <clsoto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, j.vosburgh@...il.com,
gospo@...ulusnetworks.com, vfalico@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bonding: fix destruction of bond with devices
different from arphrd_ether
On 7/15/2015 5:54 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On 07/16/2015 12:39 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org> writes:
>>
>>> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
>>>
>>> When the bonding is being unloaded and the netdevice notifier is
>>> unregistered it executes NETDEV_UNREGISTER for each device which should
>>> remove the bond's proc entry but if the device enslaved is not of
>>> ARPHRD_ETHER type and is in front of the bonding, it may execute
>>> bond_release_and_destroy() first which would release the last slave and
>>> destroy the bond device leaving the proc entry and thus we will get the
>>> following error (with dynamic debug on for bond_netdev_event to see the
>>> events order):
>> I see the failure below. I am perplexed at the description. Does the
>> bonding driver actually make sense on a non-ethernet device?
>>
> Sometimes it does, I've seen it used with infiniband devices a lot, also
> there were cases of some ppp users.
>
>> Would it not be better to make more sense to limit bonding to ethernet
>> devices so we don't get weird behavior? I imagine there might be other
>> problems with bonding non-ethernet devices that no one has spotted,
>> or cares about.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
> My personal opinion would be to disable non-ethernet devices, but support was
> already added and has been there for a long time so we have to fix this for
> the older releases, I don't mind removing non-ethernet device support for net-next
> but I'm guessing there're people still using that like the case that started
> this thread.
>
> Cheers,
> Nik
Yes, there are Infiniband users that uses bonding.
Carol
>>> [ 908.963051] eql: event: 9
>>> [ 908.963052] eql: IFF_SLAVE
>>> [ 908.963054] eql: event: 2
>>> [ 908.963056] eql: IFF_SLAVE
>>> [ 908.963058] eql: event: 6
>>> [ 908.963059] eql: IFF_SLAVE
>>> [ 908.963110] bond0: Releasing active interface eql
>>> [ 908.976168] bond0: Destroying bond bond0
>>> [ 908.976266] bond0 (unregistering): Released all slaves
>>> [ 908.984097] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>> [ 908.984107] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1787 at fs/proc/generic.c:575
>>> remove_proc_entry+0x112/0x160()
>>> [ 908.984110] remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory
>>> 'net/bonding', leaking at least 'bond0'
>>> [ 908.984111] Modules linked in: bonding(-) eql(O) 9p nfsd auth_rpcgss
>>> oid_registry nfs_acl nfs lockd grace fscache sunrpc crct10dif_pclmul
>>> crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel ppdev qxl drm_kms_helper
>>> snd_hda_codec_generic aesni_intel ttm aes_x86_64 glue_helper pcspkr lrw
>>> gf128mul ablk_helper cryptd snd_hda_intel virtio_console snd_hda_codec
>>> psmouse serio_raw snd_hwdep snd_hda_core 9pnet_virtio 9pnet evdev joydev
>>> drm virtio_balloon snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore i2c_piix4 i2c_core
>>> pvpanic acpi_cpufreq parport_pc parport processor thermal_sys button
>>> autofs4 ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 hid_generic usbhid hid sg sr_mod cdrom
>>> ata_generic virtio_blk virtio_net floppy ata_piix e1000 libata ehci_pci
>>> virtio_pci scsi_mod uhci_hcd ehci_hcd virtio_ring virtio usbcore
>>> usb_common [last unloaded: bonding]
>>>
>>> [ 908.984168] CPU: 0 PID: 1787 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G W O
>>> 4.2.0-rc2+ #8
>>> [ 908.984170] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
>>> [ 908.984172] 0000000000000000 ffffffff81732d41 ffffffff81525b34
>>> ffff8800358dfda8
>>> [ 908.984175] ffffffff8106c521 ffff88003595af78 ffff88003595af40
>>> ffff88003e3a4280
>>> [ 908.984178] ffffffffa058d040 0000000000000000 ffffffff8106c59a
>>> ffffffff8172ebd0
>>> [ 908.984181] Call Trace:
>>> [ 908.984188] [<ffffffff81525b34>] ? dump_stack+0x40/0x50
>>> [ 908.984193] [<ffffffff8106c521>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0xb0
>>> [ 908.984196] [<ffffffff8106c59a>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4a/0x50
>>> [ 908.984199] [<ffffffff81218352>] ? remove_proc_entry+0x112/0x160
>>> [ 908.984205] [<ffffffffa05850e6>] ? bond_destroy_proc_dir+0x26/0x30
>>> [bonding]
>>> [ 908.984208] [<ffffffffa057540e>] ? bond_net_exit+0x8e/0xa0 [bonding]
>>> [ 908.984217] [<ffffffff8142f407>] ? ops_exit_list.isra.4+0x37/0x70
>>> [ 908.984225] [<ffffffff8142f52d>] ?
>>> unregister_pernet_operations+0x8d/0xd0
>>> [ 908.984228] [<ffffffff8142f58d>] ?
>>> unregister_pernet_subsys+0x1d/0x30
>>> [ 908.984232] [<ffffffffa0585269>] ? bonding_exit+0x23/0xdba [bonding]
>>> [ 908.984236] [<ffffffff810e28ba>] ? SyS_delete_module+0x18a/0x250
>>> [ 908.984241] [<ffffffff81086f99>] ? task_work_run+0x89/0xc0
>>> [ 908.984244] [<ffffffff8152b732>] ?
>>> entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x16/0x75
>>> [ 908.984247] ---[ end trace 7c006ed4abbef24b ]---
>>>
>>> Thus remove the proc entry manually if bond_release_and_destroy() is
>>> used. Because of the checks in bond_remove_proc_entry() it's not a
>>> problem for a bond device to change namespaces (the bug fixed by the
>>> Fixes commit) but since commit
>>> f9399814927ad ("bonding: Don't allow bond devices to change network
>>> namespaces.") that can't happen anyway.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Carol Soto <clsoto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
>>> Fixes: a64d49c3dd50 ("bonding: Manage /proc/net/bonding/ entries from
>>> the netdev events")
>>> ---
>>> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 1 +
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>>> index 317a49480475..ec1404ec4d2f 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>>> @@ -1916,6 +1916,7 @@ static int bond_release_and_destroy(struct net_device *bond_dev,
>>> bond_dev->priv_flags |= IFF_DISABLE_NETPOLL;
>>> netdev_info(bond_dev, "Destroying bond %s\n",
>>> bond_dev->name);
>>> + bond_remove_proc_entry(bond);
>>> unregister_netdevice(bond_dev);
>>> }
>>> return ret;
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