Re: [xfrm?] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at00000004

[Steffen Klassert]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:55:49PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is
> 
> commit 4c4d41f200db375b2d2cc6d0a1de0606c8266398
> Author: Fan Du <fan.du@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Jun 6 10:15:54 2013 +0800
> 
>     xfrm: add LINUX_MIB_XFRMACQUIREERROR statistic counter
>     
>     When host ping its peer, ICMP echo request packet triggers IPsec
>     policy, then host negotiates SA secret with its peer. After IKE
>     installed SA for OUT direction, but before SA for IN direction
>     installed, host get ICMP echo reply from its peer. At the time
>     being, the SA state for IN direction could be XFRM_STATE_ACQ,
>     then the received packet will be dropped after adding
>     LINUX_MIB_XFRMINSTATEINVALID statistic.
>     
>     Adding a LINUX_MIB_XFRMACQUIREERROR statistic counter for such
>     scenario when SA in larval state is much clearer for user than
>     LINUX_MIB_XFRMINSTATEINVALID which indicates the SA is totally
>     bad.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> [  157.721828] no cont in shutdown!
> [  158.779481] floppy0: FDC access conflict!
> [  159.555337] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004
> [  160.102544] IP: [<c1609ed5>] reset_interrupt+0x85/0x90
> [  160.102544] *pde = 00000000 
> [  160.102544] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP 
> [  160.102544] CPU: 1 PID: 89 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 3.10.0-rc2-00597-g4c4d41f #3
> [  160.102544] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007
> [  160.102544] Workqueue: floppy reset_interrupt
> [  160.102544] task: c5a5ad00 ti: c5b5c000 task.ti: c5b5c000
> [  160.102544] EIP: 0060:[<c1609ed5>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 1
> [  160.102544] EIP is at reset_interrupt+0x85/0x90
> [  160.102544] EAX: 00000000 EBX: cbd56600 ECX: c5a5ad00 EDX: 000003f4
> [  160.102544] ESI: c1ed0e40 EDI: c5a23200 EBP: c5b5debc ESP: c5b5deac
> [  160.102544]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
> [  160.102544] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 00000004 CR3: 02037000 CR4: 00000690
> [  160.102544] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
> [  160.102544] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
> [  160.102544] Stack:
> [  178.765341] pcd0: Autoprobe failed
> [  178.765373] pcd: No CD-ROM drive found
> 
> Bisect log shows that
> - reverting the commit fixes the problem
> - linux-next is also impacted

Strange, your config has neither XFRM nor INET enabled. So the code in
question should not be compiled into your kernel. Also your backtraces
don't show any networking related functions.

Fan, can you look into this please?

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