Re: RFH, where did I go wrong?

[Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de>]

Dixi quod…

> > I'll take a harder look, but does it crash if you rip out debugfs?
[…]
> And yes, it (commit dbb99579808dcf106264f28f3c8cf5ef2f2c05bf) still
> crashes even if this time I get yet another message… all of those I

I may have found the case by reducing further. Disabling the periodic
dropping of too-old packets wasn’t it, but apparently, the code now
guarded by JANZ_HEADDROP is it. Replacing it (dropping the oldest
packet returning NET_XMIT_CN) with trivial code that rejects the new
packet-to-be-enqueued with qdisc_drop() instead… seems to not crash.

So, the code in question that seems to introduce the crash is:


u32 prev_backlog = sch->qstats.backlog;
//… normal code to add the passed skb (timestamp, etc.)
// q->memusage += cb->truesz;
if (unlikely(overlimit = (++sch->q.qlen > sch->limit))) {
	struct sk_buff *skbtodrop;
	/* skbtodrop = head of FIFO and remove it from the FIFO */
	skbtodrop = q->q[1].first;
	if (!(q->q[1].first = skbtodrop->next))
		q->q[1].last = NULL;
	--sch->q.qlen;
	/* accounting */
	q->memusage -= get_janz_skb(skbtodrop)->truesz;
	qdisc_qstats_backlog_dec(sch, skbtodrop);
	/* free the skb */
	rtnl_kfree_skbs(skbtodrop, skbtodrop)
}
//… normal code to add:
// line 879-885 enqueue into the FIFO
// qdisc_qstats_backlog_inc(sch, skb);
//… now code protected by the flag again:
if (unlikely(overlimit)) {
	qdisc_qstats_overlimit(sch);
	qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog(sch, 0,
	    prev_backlog - sch->qstats.backlog);
	return (NET_XMIT_CN);
}
// normal code remaining: return (NET_XMIT_SUCCESS);


This *seems* pretty straightforward to me, given similar code
in other qdiscs, and what I could learn from their header and
implementation.

TIA,
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