From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix a race in ip4_datagram_release_cb() Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:55:28 -0700 Message-ID: <1402448128.3645.437.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> References: <1402407781.3645.426.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alexey Preobrazhensky , Steffen Klassert , David Miller , paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kostya Serebryany , Dmitry Vyukov , Lars Bull , Eric Dumazet , Bruce Curtis , Maciej =?UTF-8?Q?=C5=BBenczykowski?= , Alexei Starovoitov To: dormando Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.220.53]:55339 "EHLO mail-pa0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751633AbaFKAzd (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:55:33 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id kx10so1256005pab.26 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:55:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 17:32 -0700, dormando wrote: > > > > This is neat. So just confirming that I understand (thanks for re-cc'ing > me btw <3): > > Because of the UDP glitch, it can cause either the kernel panic in the UDP > code, but also elsewhere in the TCP stack based on if it's fiddling with > the same DST being hosed by a UDP packet? > > Unfortunately we're observing a pretty severe sintr cpu increase under > 3.14, so I'm going to try this on 3.10.latest. Any potential issues there? > > Thankfully it seems like our udpkill utility will reproduce it quickly. > Lets see how it goes! This is a start, because we have other bugs of the same kind. I was working on follow up