Re: ip_rcv_finish() NULL pointer and possibly related Oopses

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Aug 27 2015 - 09:00:16 EST


On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 13:54 -0700, Michael Marineau wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:46:59 +0000
> > Shaun Crampton <Shaun.Crampton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Testing our app at scale on GoogleÂs GCE, running ~1000 CoreOS hosts: over
> >> approximately 1 hour, I see about 1 in 50 hosts hit one of the Oopses
> >> below and then reboot (IÂm not sure if the different oopses are related to
> >> each other).
> >>
> >> The app is Project Calico, which is a datacenter networking fabric.
> >> calico-felix, the process named below, is our per-host agent. The
> >> per-host agent is responsible for reading the network information from a
> >> central server and applying "ip route and "iptables" updates to the
> >> kernel. WeÂre running on CoreOS, with about 100 docker containers/veths
> >> pairs running on each host. calico-felix is running inside one of those
> >> containers. We also run the BIRD BGP stack to redistribute routes around
> >> the datacenter. The errors happen more frequently while Calico is under
> >> load.
> >>
> >> IÂm not sure where to go from here. I can reproduce these issues easily
> >> at that scale but I havenÂt managed to boil it down to a small-scale repro
> >> scenario for further investigation (yet).
> >>
> >
> > What in the world is going on with those call traces? E.g.:
> >
> >> [ 4513.712008] <IRQ>
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff81486751>] ? ip_rcv_finish+0x81/0x360
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff814870e4>] ip_rcv+0x2a4/0x400
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff814866d0>] ? inet_del_offload+0x40/0x40
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff814491b3>] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x6c3/0x9a0
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff8143b667>] ? build_skb+0x17/0x90
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff814494a8>] __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff81449523>] netif_receive_skb_internal+0x33/0xa0
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff814495ac>] netif_receive_skb_sk+0x1c/0x70
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffffa00f772b>] 0xffffffffa00f772b
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff814491b3>] ? __netif_receive_skb_core+0x6c3/0x9a0
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffffa00f7d81>] 0xffffffffa00f7d81
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff81449979>] net_rx_action+0x159/0x340
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff810715f4>] __do_softirq+0xf4/0x290
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff810719fd>] irq_exit+0xad/0xc0
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff815528ba>] do_IRQ+0x5a/0xf0
> >> [ 4513.712008] [<ffffffff815507ae>] common_interrupt+0x6e/0x6e
> >> [ 4513.712008] <EOI>
> >
> > There are two functions in the call trace that the kernel knows
> > nothing about. How did they get in there?
> >
> > And there is really executable code in there, as can be seen from a
> > later trace:
> >
> >> [ 4123.003006] <IRQ>
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff8147d477>] nf_iterate+0x57/0x80
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff8147d537>] nf_hook_slow+0x97/0x100
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff81486e32>] ip_local_deliver+0x92/0xa0
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff81486a30>] ? ip_rcv_finish+0x360/0x360
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff81486751>] ip_rcv_finish+0x81/0x360
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff814870e4>] ip_rcv+0x2a4/0x400
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff814866d0>] ? inet_del_offload+0x40/0x40
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff814491b3>] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x6c3/0x9a0
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff8143b667>] ? build_skb+0x17/0x90
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff814494a8>] __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff81449523>] netif_receive_skb_internal+0x33/0xa0
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff814495ac>] netif_receive_skb_sk+0x1c/0x70
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffffa00d472b>] 0xffffffffa00d472b
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffffa00d4d81>] 0xffffffffa00d4d81
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff81449979>] net_rx_action+0x159/0x340
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff810715f4>] __do_softirq+0xf4/0x290
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff810719fd>] irq_exit+0xad/0xc0
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff815528ba>] do_IRQ+0x5a/0xf0
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff815507ae>] common_interrupt+0x6e/0x6e
> >> [ 4123.003006] <EOI>
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff81483a3d>] ? __ip_route_output_key+0x31d/0x860
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff814e2e95>] ? xfrm_lookup_route+0x5/0x70
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff81484224>] ? ip_route_output_flow+0x54/0x60
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff8148ca6a>] ip_queue_xmit+0x36a/0x3d0
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff814a4799>] tcp_transmit_skb+0x4b9/0x990
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff814a4d85>] tcp_write_xmit+0x115/0xe90
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff814a5d72>] __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x32/0xd0
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff8149443f>] tcp_push+0xef/0x120
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff81497cb5>] tcp_sendmsg+0xc5/0xb20
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff810d74c9>] ? lock_hrtimer_base.isra.22+0x29/0x50
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff814c2d04>] inet_sendmsg+0x64/0xa0
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff811e94b5>] ? __fget_light+0x25/0x70
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff8142d74d>] sock_sendmsg+0x3d/0x50
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff8142dc12>] SYSC_sendto+0x102/0x1a0
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff8110f864>] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xb4/0x110
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff810224fc>] ? do_audit_syscall_entry+0x6c/0x70
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff81023cf3>] ?
> >> syscall_trace_enter_phase1+0x103/0x160
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff8142e75e>] SyS_sendto+0xe/0x10
> >> [ 4123.003006] [<ffffffff8154fc6e>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x71
> >> [ 4123.003006] Code: <48> 8b 88 40 03 00 00 e8 1d dd dd ff 5d c3 0f 1f 00
> >> 41 83 b9 80 00
> >> [ 4123.003006] RIP [<ffffffffa0233027>] 0xffffffffa0233027
> >> [ 4123.003006] RSP <ffff88021fc03b58>
> >
> > Presumably the same two functions as before (loaded at a different
> > base address but same offsets, 0xd81 and 0x72b). And then nf_iterate
> > call into another unknown function, and there really is code there
> > and it's consistent with the oops. And the kernel thinks it's
> > outside of any normal text section, so it does not try to dump any
> > code from before the instruction pointer.
> >
> > 0: 48 8b 88 40 03 00 00 mov 0x340(%rax),%rcx
> > 7: e8 1d dd dd ff callq 0xffffffffffdddd29
> > c: 5d pop %rbp
> > d: c3 retq
> >
> > Did you write your own module loader or something?
>
> These are stock kernels, with the exception that we include the secure
> boot patch set:
> https://github.com/coreos/coreos-overlay/tree/master/sys-kernel/coreos-sources/files/4.1
> Been a while since kmod got updated so CoreOS is currently shipping
> with kmod-15 but beyond being a bit old there isn't anything special
> about the module loader.
>
> So nothing particularly magical going on here that I know of.
>
> For reference the original bug report includes a few more varieties of
> stack traces: https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/435

One of these traces mentions ipv4_dst_destroy()

Make sure you backported commit
10e2eb878f3ca07ac2f05fa5ca5e6c4c9174a27a
("udp: fix dst races with multicast early demux")



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