[Devel] Re: Broken "Make ip6_frags per namespace" patch

[Daniel Lezcano]

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:01:11PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:40:42AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>>>>> commit c064c4811b3e87ff8202f5a966ff4eea0bc54575
>>>>>> Author: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano at fr.ibm.com>
>>>>>> Date:   Thu Jan 10 02:56:03 2008 -0800
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   [NETNS][IPV6]: Make ip6_frags per namespace.
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>   The ip6_frags is moved to the network namespace structure.  Because
>>>>>>   there can be multiple instances of the network namespaces, and the
>>>>>>   ip6_frags is no longer a global static variable, a helper function 
>>>>>>   has
>>>>>>   been added to facilitate the initialization of the variables.
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>   Until the ipv6 protocol is not per namespace, the variables are
>>>>>>   accessed relatively from the initial network namespace.
>>>>>> --- a/include/net/netns/ipv6.h
>>>>>> +++ b/include/net/netns/ipv6.h
>>>>>> @@ -11,6 +13,7 @@ struct netns_sysctl_ipv6 {
>>>>>> #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
>>>>>> 	struct ctl_table_header *table;
>>>>>> #endif
>>>>>> +	struct inet_frags_ctl frags;
>>>>>> --- a/net/ipv6/reassembly.c
>>>>>> +++ b/net/ipv6/reassembly.c
>>>>>> @@ -632,6 +625,11 @@ static struct inet6_protocol frag_protocol =
>>>>>> 	.flags		=	INET6_PROTO_NOPOLICY,
>>>>>> };
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +void ipv6_frag_sysctl_init(struct net *net)
>>>>>> +{
>>>>>> +	ip6_frags.ctl = &net->ipv6.sysctl.frags;
>>>>>> +}
>>>>> _This_ can't work. ip6frags is only one and ->ctl pointer is flipped
>>>>> onto per-netns data. Changelog is also misleading: ip6_frags_ctl is
>>>>> moved to netns not all ip6_frags.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oopsing place below -- f->ctl dereference in preparation of mod_timer() 
>>>>> call.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f5da8fc8
>>>>> printing eip: c11d868a *pdpt = 0000000000003001 *pde = 0000000001728067 
>>>>> *pte = 0000000035da8000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>>>>> Modules linked in: ebt_ip ebt_dnat ebt_arpreply ebt_arp ebt_among 
>>>>> ebtable_nat ip6t_REJECT ip6table_filter ip6_tables ebtable_filter 
>>>>> ebtable_broute ebt_802_3 ebtables des_generic nf_conntrack_netbios_ns 
>>>>> nf_conntrack_ipv4 xt_state nf_conntrack xt_tcpudp ipt_REJECT 
>>>>> iptable_filter ip_tables deflate zlib_deflate zlib_inflate cryptomgr 
>>>>> crypto_hash cpufreq_stats cpufreq_ondemand cdrom cbc bridge llc 
>>>>> blkcipher crypto_algapi arpt_mangle arptable_filter arp_tables x_tables 
>>>>> ah6 af_packet ipv6
>>>>>
>>>>> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.24-rc7-net-2.6.25-nf-sysfs-n #30)
>>>>> EIP: 0060:[<c11d868a>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 1
>>>>> EIP is at inet_frag_secret_rebuild+0xaa/0xd0
>>>>> EAX: f5da8fbc EBX: 00000000 ECX: c1310000 EDX: 00000100
>>>>> ESI: f7cba000 EDI: f898f7a0 EBP: 00000040 ESP: c1310f90
>>>>> DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
>>>>> Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c1310000 task=f7c9a580 task.ti=f7c9b000)
>>>>> Stack: f898f7a8 f898f8a8 000ddcbd f898f7a0 f7cba000 c1310fc4 00000100 
>>>>> c1026d60 00000002 00000001 c1191183 c4779ddc c11d85e0 f898c860 
>>>>>      f898c860 c12c4a88 00000001 c1308da0 0000000a c1023477 00000001 
>>>>>      c130b640 c130b640 f7c9bf34 Call Trace:
>>>>> [<c1026d60>] run_timer_softirq+0x120/0x190
>>>>> [<c1191183>] net_rx_action+0x53/0x220
>>>>> [<c11d85e0>] inet_frag_secret_rebuild+0x0/0xd0
>>>>> [<c1023477>] __do_softirq+0x87/0x100
>>>>> [<c10059cf>] do_softirq+0xaf/0x110
>>>>> [<c10233e3>] irq_exit+0x83/0x90
>>>>> [<c1010ce7>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x57/0x90
>>>>> [<c10036e1>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x29/0x38
>>>>> [<c10036eb>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x38
>>>>> [<c1001460>] default_idle+0x0/0x60
>>>>> [<c10014a0>] default_idle+0x40/0x60
>>>>> [<c1000ea3>] cpu_idle+0x73/0xb0
>>>>> =======================
>>>>> Code: 8b 10 85 d2 89 13 74 03 89 5a 04 89 18 89 43 04 85 f6 89 f3 75 bb 
>>>>> 45 83 fd 40 75 a5 8b 44 24 04 e8 4c 3f 01 00 8b 87 50 01 00 00 <8b> 50 
>>>>> 0c 01 54 24 08 8d 87 38 01 00 00 8b 54 24 08 83 c4 0c 5b EIP: 
>>>>> [<c11d868a>] inet_frag_secret_rebuild+0xaa/0xd0 SS:ESP 0068:c1310f90
>>>>> Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
>>>> Hi Alexey,
>>>>
>>>> does it happen after unsharing the network ?
>>> Yep. clone(CLONE_NEWNET) in a loop and sooner or later you'll see this.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> The network namespace is not yet complete, this is normal that you have 
>> not ip6_frag per namespace. Pavel is doing that.
> 
> it would be nice to not oops meanwhile :)

Sure :)

>> Perhaps, I should disable ipv6_frag_sysctl_init when not in the init_net 
>> and enable it again when Pavel send its fragment patchset ?
> 
> Pavel told me (he won't be in office for couple of days) that this
> place was the biggest PITA during netnsization of fragments.
> FWIW, I'm currently running with
> 
> -       ip6_frags.ctl = &net->ipv6.sysctl.frags;
> +       ip6_frags.ctl = &init_net.ipv6.sysctl.frags;
> 

Ok, I will post this patch to fix that until Pavel finishes the 
fragments. Thanks a lot for testing.