Re: [2.6.35-rc3 regression] TCP connections on 'lo' interface randomly stall

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:10:27 +0200 Thomas Bächler wrote:

> With 2.6.35-rc3, I cannot use TCP over the 'lo' interface any more. This
> is reproduced easily by running 'ssh localhost' and executing a few
> commands inside the ssh session (if you are able to log in, 'ls -lhFR /'
> does a good job) - the connection will stall completely after a very
> short time. As far as I can see, all applications are affected.
> 
> It also seems that once a service is "stalled", I cannot open a new
> connection to the same TCP port anymore. However, I can open a
> connection to a different port until that one is stalled, too.
> 
> Running wireshark, I can see that TCP retransmissions are sent, but
> never acknowledged.
> 
> Bisection (starting with 7908a9e as good and v2.6.35-rc3 as bad) leads
> to the following commit. Please CC me on replies to this issue. Thanks
> for your help.

Does this patch fix it for you?
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/13/155


> commit 597a264b1a9c7e36d1728f677c66c5c1f7e3b837
> Author: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
> Date:   Thu Jun 3 09:30:11 2010 +0000
> 
>     net: deliver skbs on inactive slaves to exact matches
> 
>     Currently, the accelerated receive path for VLAN's will
>     drop packets if the real device is an inactive slave and
>     is not one of the special pkts tested for in
>     skb_bond_should_drop().  This behavior is different then
>     the non-accelerated path and for pkts over a bonded vlan.
> 
>     For example,
> 
>     vlanx -> bond0 -> ethx
> 
>     will be dropped in the vlan path and not delivered to any
>     packet handlers at all.  However,
> 
>     bond0 -> vlanx -> ethx
> 
>     and
> 
>     bond0 -> ethx
> 
>     will be delivered to handlers that match the exact dev,
>     because the VLAN path checks the real_dev which is not a
>     slave and netif_recv_skb() doesn't drop frames but only
>     delivers them to exact matches.
> 
>     This patch adds a sk_buff flag which is used for tagging
>     skbs that would previously been dropped and allows the
>     skb to continue to skb_netif_recv().  Here we add
>     logic to check for the deliver_no_wcard flag and if it
>     is set only deliver to handlers that match exactly.  This
>     makes both paths above consistent and gives pkt handlers
>     a way to identify skbs that come from inactive slaves.
>     Without this patch in some configurations skbs will be
>     delivered to handlers with exact matches and in others
>     be dropped out right in the vlan path.
> 
>     I have tested the following 4 configurations in failover modes
>     and load balancing modes.
> 
>     # bond0 -> ethx
> 
>     # vlanx -> bond0 -> ethx
> 
>     # bond0 -> vlanx -> ethx
> 
>     # bond0 -> ethx
>                 |
>       vlanx -> --
> 
>     Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> 


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