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From: Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "Michael S.Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Qianfeng Zhang <frzhang@redhat.com>,
	"David S.Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:53:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1277816031.3640.14.camel@d2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100610124047.GA16658@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 22:40 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> Qianfeng Zhang reported that he was seeing crashes with the
> attached backtrace.
> 
> I tracked this down to the recently added netpoll support in
> the bridge device.  It's a classic use-after-free problem.
> 
> Trying to solve it brought out a host of other issues, some of
> which existed prior to the new bridge code.  The following patches
> attempt to address some of these issues.
> 
> Warning, this is completely untested (apart from compiling with
> everything enabled) so please look but don't merge :)

FWIW 2.6.35-0.2.rc3.git0.fc14.x86_64 and later rawhide kernels are
causing quite reproducible __br_deliver crashes on routine f13
netinstalls in a kvm guest here.

To test I cherry picked this series +
netpoll-Use-correct-primitives-for-RCU-dereferencing and
net-fix-netpoll-Allow-netpoll_setup-cleanup-recursion from net-next on
top of 2.6.35-0.15.rc3.git3.fc14.x86_64 (which is todays linus tree) and
it seems to fix the crashes for me.

Perhaps the netpoll fixes should find their way to a rc before 2.6.35
goes golden.

Regards
Yanko


      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-29 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-10 12:40 [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 1/7] netpoll: Set npinfo to NULL even with ndo_netpoll_cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 2/7] bridge: Remove redundant npinfo NULL setting Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 3/7] netpoll: Fix RCU usage Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 4/7] netpoll: Add locking for netpoll_setup/cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 5/7] netpoll: Add ndo_netpoll_setup Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 6/7] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 12:42 ` [PATCH 7/7] bridge: Fix netpoll support Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 14:49 ` [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-10 21:56   ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-10 21:59     ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-06-10 22:48       ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:11         ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 1/8] netpoll: Set npinfo to NULL even with ndo_netpoll_cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 2/8] bridge: Remove redundant npinfo NULL setting Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 3/8] netpoll: Fix RCU usage Herbert Xu
2010-06-11 23:10             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 4/8] netpoll: Add locking for netpoll_setup/cleanup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 5/8] netpoll: Add ndo_netpoll_setup Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 6/8] netpoll: Allow netpoll_setup/cleanup recursion Herbert Xu
2010-06-25  1:21             ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25  3:01               ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-25  3:30               ` David Miller
2010-06-25  3:50                 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25  4:27                   ` David Miller
2010-06-25  4:42                     ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25  4:52                       ` David Miller
2010-06-25  8:08                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25  8:42                         ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-25  9:45                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-25  8:46                       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-06-25 10:08                       ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 7/8] netpoll: Add netpoll_tx_running Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  2:12           ` [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support Herbert Xu
2010-06-11  3:08             ` fired a bug report on bugzilla.redhat.com Qianfeng Zhang
2010-06-15 10:28             ` [PATCH 8/8] bridge: Fix netpoll support Cong Wang
2010-06-17 10:38               ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-17 10:57                 ` Cong Wang
2010-06-17 10:55                   ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-18  3:06                     ` Cong Wang
2010-06-11 20:03           ` [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes Matt Mackall
2010-06-15 10:17           ` Cong Wang
2010-06-15 18:39           ` David Miller
2010-06-16  2:58             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16  3:03               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16  3:33                 ` Herbert Xu
2010-06-16  4:47                   ` David Miller
2010-06-16 23:02                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-17 10:18                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-06-17 21:26                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-16  6:16                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16  5:08               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-06-16  6:21                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-06-16 16:01                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-19 10:19           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-19 10:53             ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-19 11:54               ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-19 16:05                 ` David Miller
2010-07-19 16:52                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-19 20:35                     ` David Miller
2010-07-20  5:26                   ` Herbert Xu
2010-07-20  6:28                     ` David Miller
2010-06-29 12:53 ` Yanko Kaneti [this message]

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