Re: BUG: NULL pointer dereference at ib_uverbs_comp_handler+0x20

Matan Barak
2017-08-01T11:08:08Z

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My system has been failing with recent kernels (4.12.x and 4.13-rc2)
> with a NULL pointer dereference at the stack trace given at the end of
> this email. This happens when simply running 'ib_write_bw -R <server>'
> with a Chelsio T6 (cxgb4). I've bisected (log attached) to find the
> offending commit to be:
>
> commit 1e7710f3f6563940bb6bbc94aa8eadfd344a86af
> Author: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
> IB/core: Change completion channel to use the reworked objects schema
>
> Reverting this commit (and the dependent commits db1b5ddd53365 and
> e0fcc61113c that also fix other bugs with this commit) from v4.12.3
> fixes the issue.
>
> I did the bisect with the userspace libraries in Debian Stretch but I
> also had this bug with rdma-core v14. I was pretty sure v4.12 kernels
> worked for me in the past but likely only before I upgraded from Jessie
> to Stretch.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Logan
>

Hi Logan,

I've tried to reproduce this in my setup (ConnectX 4, RoCE mode) using
1e7710f3f6563940bb6bbc94aa8eadfd344a86af as the kernel's head.
I've used d779dd9a9e8f as rdma-core user-space and the latest perftest bits.
I couldn't reproduce this problem.
I'll try to review this commit again, but please provide more information.
For example, do you see the iwpm_register_pid error when these commits
are reverted?
Does this also happen when using the plain rdma-cm examples (ucmatose,
rping)? Does it happen in a plain verbs application (ibv_rc_pingpong)?
I assume you use iWarp, right? Did you test other modes?
Did you reproduce this issue with your ConnectX 4 as well?
Could you please reproduce it with KASAN as well?

PS, e0fcc61113c isn't a bug fix, it's just a simple refactor.

Regards,
Matan

>
> PS. As a side rant, this bug was found after a very *frustrating* day of
> what was supposed to be the 20 minute task of getting my RDMA cards
> plugged in again. I tried with both CX4s and the T6s (and I'm still not
> sure if my CX4s work yet). Instead, it turns out there's a whole mess of
> bugs in the kernel I had to go up against. I went back and forth between
> different versions of the userspace libraries because I was sure 4.11
> worked -- but it turned out 4.11.10+, 4.12.x and who knows what other
> stable kernels are currently broken by the bug fixed in [1]. And there
> was a whole other bug that broke things that was fixed in the 4.12-rc
> series that I had to carefully bisect around to find the one reported
> above. So frustrating!!
>
> [1] 5a7a88f1b488e4ee49eb3d5b82612d4d9ffdf2c3
>
> --
>
> [ 53.320439] iwpm_register_pid: Unable to send a nlmsg (client = 2)
> [ 54.738579] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> 0000000000000058
> [ 54.747439] IP: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x30
> [ 54.752719] PGD 0
> [ 54.752721] P4D 0
> [ 54.755049]
> [ 54.759109] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
> [ 54.762699] Modules linked in:
> [ 54.766195] CPU: 0 PID: 5 Comm: kworker/u16:0 Not tainted
> 4.13.0-rc2.direct #708
> [ 54.774536] Hardware name: Supermicro SYS-7047GR-TRF/X9DRG-QF, BIOS
> 3.0a 12/05/2013
> [ 54.783182] Workqueue: iw_cxgb4 process_work
> [ 54.788036] task: ffff880276a5ee80 task.stack: ffffc900000c4000
> [ 54.794728] RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x30
> [ 54.800552] RSP: 0018:ffffc900000c7c70 EFLAGS: 00010046
> [ 54.806473] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX:
> 0000000000000000
> [ 54.814524] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000058 RDI:
> 0000000000000058
> [ 54.822583] RBP: ffff880470484600 R08: 0000000000000001 R09:
> 0000000000000001
> [ 54.830663] R10: 0000000000000040 R11: ffff88047420b400 R12:
> 0000000000000282
> [ 54.838744] R13: ffffc900000c7dc0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15:
> ffff880470484600
> [ 54.846825] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880277c00000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 54.855997] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [ 54.862522] CR2: 0000000000000058 CR3: 0000000001e0a000 CR4:
> 00000000000406f0
> [ 54.870602] Call Trace:
> [ 54.873442] ? ib_uverbs_comp_handler+0x20/0xe0
> [ 54.878610] ? flush_qp+0x6e/0x2b0
> [ 54.882514] ? c4iw_modify_qp+0x11c2/0x1870
> [ 54.887295] ? close_con_rpl+0xe7/0x170
> [ 54.891686] ? kfree_skb+0x33/0x90
> [ 54.895592] ? skb_dequeue+0x52/0x60
> [ 54.899690] ? process_work+0x4a/0x60
> [ 54.903887] ? process_one_work+0x1c2/0x3e0
> [ 54.908664] ? worker_thread+0x47/0x3d0
> [ 54.913056] ? kthread+0xfc/0x130
> [ 54.916864] ? create_worker+0x180/0x180
> [ 54.921353] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x40/0x40
> [ 54.926521] ? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
> [ 54.930811] Code: c0 74 05 e8 b3 1c 73 ff 48 89 d8 5b c3 0f 1f 40 00
> 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 66 66 66 90 53 9c 5b fa 31 c0 ba 01 00
> 00 00 <f0> 0f b1 17 85 c0 75 05 48 89 d8 5b c3 89 c6 e8 9c 09 73 ff 48
> [ 54.952099] RIP: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x30 RSP: ffffc900000c7c70
> [ 54.959598] CR2: 0000000000000058
> [ 54.963405] ---[ end trace 896cfe0234c949d2 ]---
> [ 102.633421] random: crng init done
>