Re: seq_read bugs with ipmr

Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-08T02:49:36Z

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:02:37AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 01:22:08AM +0100, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> > running a bunch of network related stresstests (isic, isicng, ...)
> > and trying to read all files in /proc afterwards gave me two
> > oopses. I was able to reproduce them on another box with
> > a different config. I was able to reproduce this on 2.6.24 too,
> > so this is no regression. The icmpsic is version 0.06.
> > The minimal testcase to trigger this:
> >
> > ------------8<----------------
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > icmpsic -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p 100000
> >
> > find /proc/net/ | xargs cat > /dev/null
> >
> > cat /proc/net/ip_mr_cache
> > cat /proc/net/ip_mr_vif
> > ------------8<----------------
> >
> >
> > root@computer-desktop:~/testing# cat /proc/338/net/ip_mr_cache
> >
> > [ 1572.702100] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000001c1
> > [ 1572.702588] IP: [<c05942c6>] ipmr_mfc_seq_show+0x26/0xf0
>
> Reproduced.

icmpsic -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p 100000
cat /proc/net/snmp # sic
cat /proc/net/ip_mr_cache

mfc_cache_array is full of small integers

[0] = 0x1a8
[1] = 0x1a9

and so on.