Re: [PATCH iproute2-rc 1/2] rdma: Fix core dump when pretty is used

Leon Romanovsky
2024-01-02T08:33:03Z

On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 03:44:29PM +0800, Chengchang Tang wrote:
>
>
> On 2023/12/30 1:21, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 14:52:40 +0800
> > Junxian Huang <huangjunxian6@hisilicon.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Chengchang Tang <tangchengchang@huawei.com>
> > >
> > > There will be a core dump when pretty is used as the JSON object
> > > hasn't been opened and closed properly.
> > >
> > > Before:
> > > $ rdma res show qp -jp -dd
> > > [ {
> > > "ifindex": 1,
> > > "ifname": "hns_1",
> > > "port": 1,
> > > "lqpn": 1,
> > > "type": "GSI",
> > > "state": "RTS",
> > > "sq-psn": 0,
> > > "comm": "ib_core"
> > > },
> > > "drv_sq_wqe_cnt": 128,
> > > "drv_sq_max_gs": 2,
> > > "drv_rq_wqe_cnt": 512,
> > > "drv_rq_max_gs": 1,
> > > rdma: json_writer.c:130: jsonw_end: Assertion `self->depth > 0' failed.
> > > Aborted (core dumped)
> > >
> > > After:
> > > $ rdma res show qp -jp -dd
> > > [ {
> > > "ifindex": 2,
> > > "ifname": "hns_2",
> > > "port": 1,
> > > "lqpn": 1,
> > > "type": "GSI",
> > > "state": "RTS",
> > > "sq-psn": 0,
> > > "comm": "ib_core",{
> > > "drv_sq_wqe_cnt": 128,
> > > "drv_sq_max_gs": 2,
> > > "drv_rq_wqe_cnt": 512,
> > > "drv_rq_max_gs": 1,
> > > "drv_ext_sge_sge_cnt": 256
> > > }
> > > } ]
> > >
> > > Fixes: 331152752a97 ("rdma: print driver resource attributes")
> > > Signed-off-by: Chengchang Tang <tangchengchang@huawei.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Junxian Huang <huangjunxian6@hisilicon.com>
> > This code in rdma seems to be miking json and newline functionality
> > which creates bug traps.
> >
> > Also the json should have same effective output in pretty and non-pretty mode.
> > It looks like since pretty mode add extra object layer, the nesting of {} would be
> > different.
> >
> > The conversion to json_print() was done but it isn't using same conventions
> > as ip or tc.
> >
> > The correct fix needs to go deeper and hit other things.
> >
>
> Hi, Stephen,
>
> The root cause of this issue is that close_json_object() is being called in
> newline_indent(), resulting in a mismatch
> of {}.
>
> When fixing this problem, I was unsure why a newline() is needed in pretty
> mode, so I simply kept this logic and
> solved the issue of open_json_object() and close_json_object() not matching.
> However, If the output of pretty mode
> and not-pretty mode should be the same, then this problem can be resolved by
> deleting this newline_indent().

Stephen didn't say that output of pretty and not-pretty should be the
same, but he said that JSON logic should be the same.

Thanks

>
> I believe the original developer may not have realized that
> close_json_object() is being called in newline(), which leads
> to this problem. To improve the code's readability, I would try to strip out
> close_json_obejct() from newline().
>
> Thanks,
> Chengchang Tang
>