Message-ID: <CAGr1u3vDQDj6rJYcx2vCsf9KkWf-X=qSh3QD-jAZf7hpUYaAyg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:16:06 -0700
From:	Michael Marineau <michael.marineau@...eos.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@...il.com>,
	Shaun Crampton <Shaun.Crampton@...aswitch.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter White <Peter.White@...aswitch.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ip_rcv_finish() NULL pointer and possibly related Oopses

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 13:54 -0700, Michael Marineau wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@...il.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:46:59 +0000
>> > Shaun Crampton <Shaun.Crampton@...aswitch.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Testing our app at scale on Google¹s GCE, running ~1000 CoreOS hosts: over
>> >> approximately 1 hour, I see about 1 in 50 hosts hit one of the Oopses
>> >> below and then reboot (I¹m not sure if the different oopses are related to
>> >> each other).
>> >>
>> >> The app is Project Calico, which is a datacenter networking fabric.
>> >> calico-felix, the process named below, is our per-host agent.  The
>> >> per-host agent is responsible for reading the network information from a
>> >> central server and applying "ip route² and "iptables" updates to the
>> >> kernel.  We¹re running on CoreOS, with about 100  docker containers/veths
>> >> pairs running on each host.  calico-felix is running inside one of those
>> >> containers. We also run the BIRD BGP stack to redistribute routes around
>> >> the datacenter.  The errors happen more frequently while Calico is under
>> >> load.
>> >>
>> >> I¹m not sure where to go from here.  I can reproduce these issues easily
>> >> at that scale but I haven¹t managed to boil it down to a small-scale repro
>> >> scenario for further investigation (yet).
>> >>
>> >
>> > What in the world is going on with those call traces? E.g.:
>> >
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  <IRQ>
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff81486751>] ? ip_rcv_finish+0x81/0x360
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff814870e4>] ip_rcv+0x2a4/0x400
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff814866d0>] ? inet_del_offload+0x40/0x40
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff814491b3>] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x6c3/0x9a0
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff8143b667>] ? build_skb+0x17/0x90
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff814494a8>] __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff81449523>] netif_receive_skb_internal+0x33/0xa0
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff814495ac>] netif_receive_skb_sk+0x1c/0x70
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffffa00f772b>] 0xffffffffa00f772b
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff814491b3>] ? __netif_receive_skb_core+0x6c3/0x9a0
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffffa00f7d81>] 0xffffffffa00f7d81
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff81449979>] net_rx_action+0x159/0x340
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff810715f4>] __do_softirq+0xf4/0x290
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff810719fd>] irq_exit+0xad/0xc0
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff815528ba>] do_IRQ+0x5a/0xf0
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff815507ae>] common_interrupt+0x6e/0x6e
>> >> [ 4513.712008]  <EOI>
>> >
>> > There are two functions in the call trace that the kernel knows
>> > nothing about. How did they get in there?
>> >
>> > And there is really executable code in there, as can be seen from a
>> > later trace:
>> >
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  <IRQ>
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8147d477>] nf_iterate+0x57/0x80
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8147d537>] nf_hook_slow+0x97/0x100
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81486e32>] ip_local_deliver+0x92/0xa0
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81486a30>] ? ip_rcv_finish+0x360/0x360
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81486751>] ip_rcv_finish+0x81/0x360
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814870e4>] ip_rcv+0x2a4/0x400
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814866d0>] ? inet_del_offload+0x40/0x40
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814491b3>] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x6c3/0x9a0
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8143b667>] ? build_skb+0x17/0x90
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814494a8>] __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81449523>] netif_receive_skb_internal+0x33/0xa0
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814495ac>] netif_receive_skb_sk+0x1c/0x70
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffffa00d472b>] 0xffffffffa00d472b
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffffa00d4d81>] 0xffffffffa00d4d81
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81449979>] net_rx_action+0x159/0x340
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff810715f4>] __do_softirq+0xf4/0x290
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff810719fd>] irq_exit+0xad/0xc0
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff815528ba>] do_IRQ+0x5a/0xf0
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff815507ae>] common_interrupt+0x6e/0x6e
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  <EOI>
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81483a3d>] ? __ip_route_output_key+0x31d/0x860
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814e2e95>] ? xfrm_lookup_route+0x5/0x70
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81484224>] ? ip_route_output_flow+0x54/0x60
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8148ca6a>] ip_queue_xmit+0x36a/0x3d0
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814a4799>] tcp_transmit_skb+0x4b9/0x990
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814a4d85>] tcp_write_xmit+0x115/0xe90
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814a5d72>] __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x32/0xd0
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8149443f>] tcp_push+0xef/0x120
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81497cb5>] tcp_sendmsg+0xc5/0xb20
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff810d74c9>] ? lock_hrtimer_base.isra.22+0x29/0x50
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814c2d04>] inet_sendmsg+0x64/0xa0
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff811e94b5>] ? __fget_light+0x25/0x70
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8142d74d>] sock_sendmsg+0x3d/0x50
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8142dc12>] SYSC_sendto+0x102/0x1a0
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8110f864>] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xb4/0x110
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff810224fc>] ? do_audit_syscall_entry+0x6c/0x70
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81023cf3>] ?
>> >> syscall_trace_enter_phase1+0x103/0x160
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8142e75e>] SyS_sendto+0xe/0x10
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8154fc6e>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x71
>> >> [ 4123.003006] Code: <48> 8b 88 40 03 00 00 e8 1d dd dd ff 5d c3 0f 1f 00
>> >> 41 83 b9 80 00
>> >> [ 4123.003006] RIP  [<ffffffffa0233027>] 0xffffffffa0233027
>> >> [ 4123.003006]  RSP <ffff88021fc03b58>
>> >
>> > Presumably the same two functions as before (loaded at a different
>> > base address but same offsets, 0xd81 and 0x72b). And then nf_iterate
>> > call into another unknown function, and there really is code there
>> > and it's consistent with the oops. And the kernel thinks it's
>> > outside of any normal text section, so it does not try to dump any
>> > code from before the instruction pointer.
>> >
>> >    0:   48 8b 88 40 03 00 00    mov    0x340(%rax),%rcx
>> >    7:   e8 1d dd dd ff          callq  0xffffffffffdddd29
>> >    c:   5d                      pop    %rbp
>> >    d:   c3                      retq
>> >
>> > Did you write your own module loader or something?
>>
>> These are stock kernels, with the exception that we include the secure
>> boot patch set:
>> https://github.com/coreos/coreos-overlay/tree/master/sys-kernel/coreos-sources/files/4.1
>> Been a while since kmod got updated so CoreOS is currently shipping
>> with kmod-15 but beyond being a bit old there isn't anything special
>> about the module loader.
>>
>> So nothing particularly magical going on here that I know of.
>>
>> For reference the original bug report includes a few more varieties of
>> stack traces: https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/435
>
> One of these traces mentions ipv4_dst_destroy()
>
> Make sure you backported commit
> 10e2eb878f3ca07ac2f05fa5ca5e6c4c9174a27a
> ("udp: fix dst races with multicast early demux")

Oh, interesting. Looks like that patch didn't get CC'd to stable
though, is there a reason for that or just oversight?
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