Re: Bug in 2.6.11.11 - udp_poll(), fragments + CONFIG_HIGHMEM

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon May 30 2005 - 16:23:01 EST


Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Summary: with CONFIG_HIGHMEM set, net/ipv4/udp.c::udp_poll()
> fails when rx'ing an skb with fragments.
>
> Present in [at least] 2.6.11.*, 2.6.10
>
>
> Details:
>
> User space code polling on a blocking socket fd receives an
> skb with fragments -- this is very unlikely in the common
> case but can happen with encapsulation etc; however its pretty
> much guaranteed to happen under Xen 2.x when communicating
> between dom0 and domU.
>
>
> Example backtrace from console:
>
> kernel: Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:140
> kernel: [local_bh_enable+130/144] local_bh_enable+0x82/0x90
> kernel: [skb_checksum+317/704] skb_checksum+0x13d/0x2c0
> kernel: [udp_poll+154/352] udp_poll+0x9a/0x160
> kernel: [sock_poll+41/64] sock_poll+0x29/0x40
> kernel: [do_pollfd+149/160] do_pollfd+0x95/0xa0
> kernel: [do_poll+106/208] do_poll+0x6a/0xd0
> kernel: [sys_poll+353/576] sys_poll+0x161/0x240
> kernel: [sys_gettimeofday+60/144] sys_gettimeofday+0x3c/0x90
> kernel: [__pollwait+0/208] __pollwait+0x0/0xd0
> kernel: [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>

Yes, that still seems to be there:

udp_poll
->spin_lock_irq()
->udp_checksum_complete
->__udp_checksum_complete
->skb_checksum
->kmap_skb_frag
->local_bh_disable

That local_bh_disable() in kmap_skb_frag() looks weird and might be
unnecessary. Does anyone know what it's there for? Replace it with
local_irq_save()?

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