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From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	jere.leppanen@nokia.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: Don't add the shutdown timer if its already been added
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 17:43:22 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200519204322.GR2491@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200519200405.857632-1-nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 04:04:05PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> This BUG halt was reported a while back, but the patch somehow got
> missed:
> 
> PID: 2879   TASK: c16adaa0  CPU: 1   COMMAND: "sctpn"
>  #0 [f418dd28] crash_kexec at c04a7d8c
>  #1 [f418dd7c] oops_end at c0863e02
>  #2 [f418dd90] do_invalid_op at c040aaca
>  #3 [f418de28] error_code (via invalid_op) at c08631a5
>     EAX: f34baac0  EBX: 00000090  ECX: f418deb0  EDX: f5542950  EBP: 00000000
>     DS:  007b      ESI: f34ba800  ES:  007b      EDI: f418dea0  GS:  00e0
>     CS:  0060      EIP: c046fa5e  ERR: ffffffff  EFLAGS: 00010286
>  #4 [f418de5c] add_timer at c046fa5e
>  #5 [f418de68] sctp_do_sm at f8db8c77 [sctp]
>  #6 [f418df30] sctp_primitive_SHUTDOWN at f8dcc1b5 [sctp]
>  #7 [f418df48] inet_shutdown at c080baf9
>  #8 [f418df5c] sys_shutdown at c079eedf
>  #9 [f418df70] sys_socketcall at c079fe88
>     EAX: ffffffda  EBX: 0000000d  ECX: bfceea90  EDX: 0937af98
>     DS:  007b      ESI: 0000000c  ES:  007b      EDI: b7150ae4
>     SS:  007b      ESP: bfceea7c  EBP: bfceeaa8  GS:  0033
>     CS:  0073      EIP: b775c424  ERR: 00000066  EFLAGS: 00000282
> 
> It appears that the side effect that starts the shutdown timer was processed
> multiple times, which can happen as multiple paths can trigger it.  This of
> course leads to the BUG halt in add_timer getting called.
> 
> Fix seems pretty straightforward, just check before the timer is added if its
> already been started.  If it has mod the timer instead to min(current
> expiration, new expiration)
> 
> Its been tested but not confirmed to fix the problem, as the issue has only
> occured in production environments where test kernels are enjoined from being
> installed.  It appears to be a sane fix to me though.  Also, recentely,
> Jere found a reproducer posted on list to confirm that this resolves the
> issues
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> CC: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> CC: jere.leppanen@nokia.com
> CC: marcelo.leitner@gmail.com
> CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org

Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-19 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-19 20:04 [PATCH] sctp: Don't add the shutdown timer if its already been added Neil Horman
2020-05-19 20:43 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner [this message]
2020-05-19 22:48 ` David Miller

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