Re: Race with ip=dhcp bootparameter in ip_rcv_finish on am335x

[Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>]

On 09/23/2015 12:29 PM, Alexander Aring wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using am335x (beaglebone white) with "ip=dhcp" inside my
> bootparameters. It seems there exists some race, rarely it boots fine
> and often it crashed with following messages:
> 
> First (Without successful dhcp ip assign and is very rarely):
> 
> [    6.249083] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> [    6.398943] .
> [    7.400822] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 7402a8c8
> [    7.408419] pgd = c0004000
> [    7.411351] [7402a8c8] *pgd=00000000
> [    7.415121] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
> [    7.419968] Modules linked in:
> [    7.423197] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W       4.2.0-11195-ge81be90 #124
> [    7.432118] Hardware name: Generic AM33XX (Flattened Device Tree)
> [    7.438509] task: c0a996c8 ti: c0a92000 task.ti: c0a92000
> [    7.444189] PC is at ip_route_input_noref+0x620/0xeb4
> [    7.449491] LR is at trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xb0/0x1e8
<<<snip>>>
> [    7.759169] [<c054b49c>] (ip_route_input_noref) from [<c0550668>] (ip_rcv_finish+0xd4/0x67c)
<<<snip>>>
> 
> --------
> 
> I tried to bisect this issue without success, sometimes it's booting fine
> and sometimes I got the above messages. Could anybody help me here to
> fixing this issue?
> 
> - Alex

Hi Alex,
This should be fixed by commit bde6f9ded1bd 
("net: Initialize table in fib result") in net-next.

Cheers,
 Nik