netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in __skb_try_recv

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Message-ID: <CAM_iQpVQNPQ1LNvG+h3=UvTM9Lm-adhryQk-ad4aeckHS-V0ew@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 Dec 2015 14:30:35 -0800
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Jacob Siverskog <jacob@...nage.engineering>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@...ileactivedefense.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in __skb_try_recv_datagram

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Jacob Siverskog
<jacob@...nage.engineering> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
>> How often can you trigger this bug ?
>
> Ok. I don't have a good repro to trigger it unfortunately, I've seen it just a
> few times when bringing up/down network interfaces. Does the trace
> give any clue?
>

A little bit. You need to help people to narrow down the problem
because there are too many places using skb->next and skb->prev.

Since you mentioned it seems related to network interface flip,
what network interfaces are you using? What's is your TC setup?

Thanks.
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