oops in snmp6_unregister_dev()

[Terry Griffin]

Hi all,

I'm getting an oops in snmp6_unregister_dev(). I've replicated the
problem with these kernels:

  Pre-built 2.6.9-1.6_FC2 (Fedora Core 2)
  Pre-built 2.6.9-1.11_FC2 (Fedora Core 2)
  Custom-built 2.6.10 (kernel.org)

The oops message below is from 2.6.9-1.11_FC2.

The trigger is these commands in rapid succession:

  service dhcpd stop
  ifdown eth2
  ifconfig eth2 0.0.0.0

The ifconfig command is not required to trigger the oops but it
dramatically increases the odds of it happening to better than
90%. Without the ifconfig command the odds of getting the oops
are much lower, less than 10%.

The service and ifdown scripts, and the ifconfig utility
are those included with FC2.

Interface eth2 is associated with the r8169 device driver. The
DHCP server is configured to dish out leases on this interface.

The user-space workaround is to insert delays between the commands
as follows:

  service dhcpd stop
  sleep 1
  ifdown eth2
  sleep 1
  ifconfig eth2 0.0.0.0

The oops message text below was hand typed so their could be some
errors.

Thanks,
Terry


Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
0000000a
 printing eip:
c019f200
*pde = 1faf3067
Oops: 0000 [#1]
Modules linked in: r8169 microcode dm_mod uhci_hcd ehci_hdc e100 mii
appletalk ipx md5 ipv6 ext3 jbd
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c019f200>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010286   (2.6.9-1.11_FC2)
EIP is at remove_proc_entry+0x2f/0xe3
eax: 00000000   ebx: 0000000a   ecx: ffffffff   edx: de100200
esi: ddce6000   edi: 0000000a   ebp: c03d9fd0   esp: c03d9f80
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c03d9000 task=c034cb80)
Stack: de100200 0000000a dfd24800 ddce6000 00000000 c03d9fd0 e09691d7
dfd24800
       e094b025 dd9e6e80 dddf2680 c02a63e1 dddf2680 c0421ce0 c03529e0
c02a606f
       00000000 c02a5fc4 c0128666 c03d9fd0 c03d9fd0 c03d9fd0 00000000
00000001
Call Trace:
 [<e09691d7>] snmp6_unregister_dev+0x2f/0x3e [ipv6]
 [<e094b025>] in6_dev_finish_destroy+0x70/0x7f [ipv6]
 [<c02a63e1>] dst_destroy+0x60/0xa7
 [<c02a606f>] dst_run_gc+0xab/0x18a
 [<c02a5fc4>] dst_run_gc+0x0/0x18a
 [<c0128666>] run_timer_softirq+0x1e3/0x2e1
 [<c0124b41>] __do_softirq+0x35/0x79
 [<c01093e7>] do_softirq+0x3a/0x41
 =======================
 [<c0108993>] do_IRQ+0x239/0x242
 [<c0106468>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
 [<c0116418>] apm_bios_call_simple+0x5e/0x95
 [<c02f0000>] __xfrm_state_delete+0xe8/0x160
 [<c0116523>] apm_do_idle+0x12/0x5c
 [<c0116637>] apm_cpu_idle+0xab/0x121
 [<c010408c>] cpu_idle+0x1f/0x34
 [<c03af6bc>] start_kernel+0x20f/0x211
Code: 56 53 55 55 89 14 24 89 44 24 04 75 13 8d 4c 24 04 89 e2 e8 42 f4
ff ff 85 c0 0f 85 b7 00 00 00 8b 5c 24 04 31 c0 83 c9 ff 89 df <f2> ae
f7 d1 49 8b 04 24 89 cd 8d 70 34 83 78 34 00 0f 84 95 00
 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt


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