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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ani@anirban.org, fruggeri@arista.com
Subject: Re: kernel BUG in ipmr_queue_xmit()
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 01:15:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151030001510.GG18062@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1510291646320.59200@animac.local>

Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com> wrote:

[ trimmed CC list ]

> We are noticing the following kernel BUG in 3.18 kernel. The 
> code path that leads to the crash is the following :
> 
>  ip_mroute_setsockopt()
>   ->ipmr_mfc_add()
>       ->ipmr_cache_resolve()
>         ->ip_mr_forward()
>            -> ipmr_queue_xmit()
>              -> ipmr_forward_finish()
>                ->IP_INC_STATS_BH()
>                   -> SNMP_INC_STATS64_BH()
>                     -> SNMP_INC_STATS_BH()
>                           -> __this_cpu_inc()
>                               -> __this_cpu_add()
>                                   -> __this_cpu_preempt_check()
>                                      -> check_preemption_disabled()
> 
> I have verified that preempt_count() is 0 when the crash happens.
> Is anyone else seeing the same crash in the laetst upstream code? I dug 
> around a little bit and it does not look like there were any fixes that 
> went into post 3.18 kernel which could have disabled preemption in this 
> code path but I could be wrong. 
> 
> thoughts?

Send a patch to preempt_disable before ip_mr_forward call in the affected
setsockopt path?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-30  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-29 23:55 kernel BUG in ipmr_queue_xmit() Ani Sinha
2015-10-30  0:15 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2015-10-30  1:41   ` Ani Sinha
2015-10-30  4:15     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-10-30 10:36       ` Florian Westphal
2015-10-30 10:40         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-30 10:48           ` Florian Westphal
2015-10-30 11:00             ` Eric Dumazet
2015-10-30 17:47               ` Ani Sinha
2015-10-30 19:12                 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-10-30 21:10                   ` Ani Sinha
2015-10-30 23:54                   ` [PATCH 1/1] ipmr: fix possible race resulting from improper usage of IP_INC_STATS_BH() in preemptible context Ani Sinha
2015-11-01 22:35                     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-11-02 20:57                     ` David Miller

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