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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Michele Baldessari <michele@acksyn.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: oops in pskb_expand_head - 3.11.6
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:24:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131118092436.GA3743@minipsycho.orion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131118091922.GB11185@marquez.int.rhx>

Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:19:22AM CET, michele@acksyn.org wrote:
>Hi Hannes,
>
>On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 08:18:10PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:11:50AM +0000, Michele Baldessari wrote:
>> > Hi Hannes,
>> > 
>> > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:42:23AM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:16:15PM +0000, Michele Baldessari wrote:
>> > > > Two oops like the following were reported in Fedora 19 - kernel 3.11.6:
>> > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015905
>> > > 
>> > > I have not followed that issue that closely, but could you try linus tree
>> > > or net-next?
>> > > 
>> > > Maybe those two patches improve the situation:
>> > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9037c3579a277f3a23ba476664629fda8c35f7c4
>> > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6aafeef03b9d9ecf255f3a80ed85ee070260e1ae
>> > > 
>> > indeed a current kernel seems to fix the crash (according to the
>> > reporters). I'll see if I manage to bisect exactly.
>> 
>> Great, if you confirm this we can ask David if he adds the commits to the
>> -stable queue.
>
>I can confirm that 6aafeef03b9d9ecf255f3a80ed85ee070260e1ae "netfilter:
>push reasm skb through instead of original frag skbs" fixes the oops
>mentioned in this thread. I've applied it to a 3.11.8 kernel and it
>fixed the crash. I had to slightly tweak it as it does not apply 100%
>cleanly due to 795aa6ef6a1aba99050735eadd0c2341b789b53b " netfilter:
>pass hook ops to hookfn". 
>
>So definitely -stable material.
>
>Not sure if you also want to add 9037c3579a277f3a23ba476664629fda8c35f7c4 
>"ip6_output: fragment outgoing reassembled skb properly". It did not
>have any impact in this particular scenario.

It goes hand in hand with 6aafeef03b9d9ecf255f3a80ed85ee070260e1ae.
Without 9037c3579a277f3a23ba476664629fda8c35f7c4 skbs that reasm len is
< MTU would not get fragmented which is not desired.


>
>Thanks again,
>Michele
>-- 
>Michele Baldessari            <michele@acksyn.org>
>C2A5 9DA3 9961 4FFB E01B  D0BC DDD4 DCCB 7515 5C6D

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-18  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-16 23:16 oops in pskb_expand_head - 3.11.6 Michele Baldessari
2013-11-16 23:42 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-11-17 11:11   ` Michele Baldessari
2013-11-17 19:18     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-11-18  9:19       ` Michele Baldessari
2013-11-18  9:24         ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2013-11-18 22:25           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2013-11-18 22:59             ` Jiri Pirko
2013-11-18 23:03               ` David Miller

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