Re: kernel panic in skb_copy_bits

From: Joe Jin
Date: Thu Jun 27 2013 - 03:15:54 EST


Hi Eric,

Thanks for you response, will test it and get back to you.

Regards,
Joe
On 06/27/13 13:31, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 10:58 +0800, Joe Jin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When we do fail over test with iscsi + multipath by reset the switches
>> on OVM(2.6.39) we hit the panic:
>>
>> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88006d9e8d48
>> IP: [<ffffffff812605bb>] memcpy+0xb/0x120
>> PGD 1798067 PUD 1fd2067 PMD 213f067 PTE 0
>> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
>> CPU 7
>> Modules linked in: dm_nfs tun nfs fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl xen_blkback xen_netback xen_gntdev xen_evtchn lockd sunrpc bridge stp llc bonding be2iscsi iscsi_boot_sysfs ib_iser rdma_cm ib_cm iw_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core ib_addr iscsi_tcp bnx2i cnic uio ipv6 cxgb3i libcxgbi cxgb3 mdio dm_round_robin dm_multipath libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi xenfs xen_privcmd video sbs sbshc acpi_memhotplug acpi_ipmi ipmi_msghandler parport_pc lp parport ixgbe dca sr_mod cdrom bnx2 radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm snd_seq_dummy i2c_algo_bit i2c_core snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss serio_raw snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc iTCO_wdt pcspkr iTCO_vendor_support pata_acpi dcdbas i5k_amb ata_generic hwmon floppy ghes i5000_edac edac_core hed dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod usb_storage lpfc scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt ata_piix sg shpchp mptsas mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_sas sd_mod crc_t10dif ext!
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>>
>>
>> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.39-300.32.1.el5uek #1 Dell Inc. PowerEdge 2950/0DP246
>> RIP: e030:[<ffffffff812605bb>] [<ffffffff812605bb>] memcpy+0xb/0x120
>> RSP: e02b:ffff8801003c3d58 EFLAGS: 00010246
>> RAX: ffff880076b9e280 RBX: ffff8800714d2c00 RCX: 0000000000000057
>> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88006d9e8d48 RDI: ffff880076b9e280
>> RBP: ffff8801003c3dc0 R08: 00000000000bf723 R09: 0000000000000000
>> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000000a R12: 0000000000000034
>> R13: 0000000000000034 R14: 00000000000002b8 R15: 00000000000005a8
>> FS: 00007fc1e852a6e0(0000) GS:ffff8801003c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>> CS: e033 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b
>> CR2: ffff88006d9e8d48 CR3: 000000006370b000 CR4: 0000000000002660
>> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>> Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff880077ac0000, task ffff880077abe240)
>> Stack:
>> ffffffff8142db21 0000000000000000 ffff880076b9e280 ffff8800637097f0
>> 000002ec00000000 00000000000002b8 ffff880077ac0000 0000000000000000
>> ffff8800637097f0 ffff880066c9a7c0 00000000fffffdb4 000000000000024c
>> Call Trace:
>> <IRQ>
>> [<ffffffff8142db21>] ? skb_copy_bits+0x1c1/0x2e0
>> [<ffffffff8142f173>] skb_copy+0xf3/0x120
>> [<ffffffff81447fbc>] neigh_timer_handler+0x1ac/0x350
>> [<ffffffff810573fe>] ? account_idle_ticks+0xe/0x10
>> [<ffffffff81447e10>] ? neigh_alloc+0x180/0x180
>> [<ffffffff8107dbaa>] call_timer_fn+0x4a/0x110
>> [<ffffffff81447e10>] ? neigh_alloc+0x180/0x180
>> [<ffffffff8107f82a>] run_timer_softirq+0x13a/0x220
>> [<ffffffff81075c39>] __do_softirq+0xb9/0x1d0
>> [<ffffffff810d9678>] ? handle_percpu_irq+0x48/0x70
>> [<ffffffff81511d3c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
>> [<ffffffff810172e5>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
>> [<ffffffff8107656b>] irq_exit+0xab/0xc0
>> [<ffffffff812f97d5>] xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0x35/0x50
>> [<ffffffff81511d8e>] xen_do_hypervisor_callback+0x1e/0x30
>> <EOI>
>> [<ffffffff810013aa>] ? xen_hypercall_sched_op+0xa/0x20
>> [<ffffffff810013aa>] ? xen_hypercall_sched_op+0xa/0x20
>> [<ffffffff8100a0b0>] ? xen_safe_halt+0x10/0x20
>> [<ffffffff8101dfeb>] ? default_idle+0x5b/0x170
>> [<ffffffff81014ac6>] ? cpu_idle+0xc6/0xf0
>> [<ffffffff8100a8c9>] ? xen_irq_enable_direct_reloc+0x4/0x4
>> [<ffffffff814f7bbe>] ? cpu_bringup_and_idle+0xe/0x10
>> Code: 01 c6 43 4c 04 19 c0 4c 8b 65 f0 4c 8b 6d f8 83 e0 fc 83 c0 08 88 43 4d 48 8b 5d e8 c9 c3 90 90 48 89 f8 89 d1 c1 e9 03 83 e2 07 <f3> 48 a5 89 d1 f3 a4 c3 20 48 83 ea 20 4c 8b 06 4c 8b 4e 08 4c
>> RIP [<ffffffff812605bb>] memcpy+0xb/0x120
>> RSP <ffff8801003c3d58>
>> CR2: ffff88006d9e8d48
>>
>> Reviewed vmcore I found the skb->users is 1 at the moment, checked network neighbour
>> history I found skb_get() be replaced by skb_copy by commit 7e36763b2c:
>>
>> commit 7e36763b2c204d59de4e88087f84a2c0c8421f25
>> Author: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Mon Mar 3 12:16:04 2008 -0800
>>
>> [NET]: Fix race in generic address resolution.
>>
>> neigh_update sends skb from neigh->arp_queue while neigh_timer_handler
>> has increased skbs refcount and calls solicit with the
>> skb. neigh_timer_handler should not increase skbs refcount but make a
>> copy of the skb and do solicit with the copy.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> So can you please give some details of the race? per vmcore seems like the skb data
>> be freed, I suspected skb_get() lost at somewhere?
>> I reverted above commit the panic not occurred during our testing.
>>
>> Any input will appreciate!
>
> Well, fact is that your crash is happening in skb_copy().
>
> Frank patch is OK. I suspect using skb_clone() would work too,
> so if these skb were fclone ready, chance of an GFP_ATOMIC allocation
> error would be smaller.
>
> So something is providing a wrong skb at the very beginning.
>
> You could try to do a early skb_copy to catch the bug and see in the
> stack trace what produced this buggy skb.
>
> diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
> index 5c56b21..a7a51fd 100644
> --- a/net/core/neighbour.c
> +++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
> @@ -1010,6 +1010,7 @@ int __neigh_event_send(struct neighbour *neigh, struct sk_buff *skb)
> NEIGH_CACHE_STAT_INC(neigh->tbl, unres_discards);
> }
> skb_dst_force(skb);
> + kfree_skb(skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC));
> __skb_queue_tail(&neigh->arp_queue, skb);
> neigh->arp_queue_len_bytes += skb->truesize;
> }
>
>
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