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From: Wolfgang Walter <linux@stwm.de>
To: Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@gmail.com>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	weiwan@google.com, Tobias Hommel <netdev-list@genoetigt.de>,
	edumazet@google.com
Subject: Re: kernels > v4.12 oops/crash with ipsec-traffic: bisected to b838d5e1c5b6e57b10ec8af2268824041e3ea911: ipv4: mark DST_NOGC and remove the operation of dst_free()
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:46:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1727961.pNJLMAiven@stwm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKfDRXg7EJeoO--QFFEJLtSPqRVngy4etSQHjSkQwNnhc4RFRA@mail.gmail.com>

Am Montag, 10. September 2018, 10:18:47 schrieb Kristian Evensen:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks everyone for all the effort in debugging this issue.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 8:39 AM Steffen Klassert
> 
> <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> wrote:
> > The easy fix that could be backported to stable would be
> > to check skb->dst for NULL and drop the packet in that case.
> 
> Thought I should just chime in and say that we deployed this
> work-around when we started observing the error back in June. Since
> then we have not seen any crashes. Also, we have instrumented some of
> our kernels to count the number of times the error is hit (overall +
> consecutive). Compared to the overall number of packets, the error
> happens very rarely. With our workloads, we on average see the error
> once every couple of days.
> 

Would you mind send us yout patch (with the accounting) so that we can check 
how often that happens here?

Regards,
-- 
Wolfgang Walter
Studentenwerk München
Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-10 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-30 10:48 kernels >= v4.12 oops/crash with ipsec-traffic: partly bisected Wolfgang Walter
2018-08-30 18:53 ` kernels > v4.12 oops/crash with ipsec-traffic: bisected to b838d5e1c5b6e57b10ec8af2268824041e3ea911: ipv4: mark DST_NOGC and remove the operation of dst_free() Wolfgang Walter
2018-08-31  6:50   ` Steffen Klassert
2018-09-07  9:53     ` Wolfgang Walter
2018-09-07 20:22     ` Wolfgang Walter
2018-09-07 21:10       ` Wolfgang Walter
2018-09-10  6:37         ` Steffen Klassert
2018-09-10  8:18           ` Kristian Evensen
2018-09-10 10:46             ` Wolfgang Walter [this message]
2018-09-11 10:33             ` Steffen Klassert
2018-09-11 16:53               ` Wolfgang Walter
2018-09-11 19:02                 ` Tobias Hommel
2018-09-12  8:50                   ` Steffen Klassert
2018-09-12 15:18                     ` Tobias Hommel
2018-09-19 18:38                       ` Tobias Hommel
2018-09-10  9:06           ` Tobias Hommel

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