Re: net: hang in unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 3:53 PM, Tommi Rantala
>> <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 20.02.2018 18:26, Neil Horman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 09:14:41AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:56 AM, Tommi Rantala
>>>>> <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 19.02.2018 20:59, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is this meant to be fixed already? I am still seeing this on the
>>>>>>> latest upstream tree.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These two commits are in v4.16-rc1:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> commit 4a31a6b19f9ddf498c81f5c9b089742b7472a6f8
>>>>>> Author: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Date:   Mon Feb 5 21:48:14 2018 +0200
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      sctp: fix dst refcnt leak in sctp_v4_get_dst
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>      Fixes: 410f03831 ("sctp: add routing output fallback")
>>>>>>      Fixes: 0ca50d12f ("sctp: fix src address selection if using
>>>>>> secondary
>>>>>> addresses")
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> commit 957d761cf91cdbb175ad7d8f5472336a4d54dbf2
>>>>>> Author: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Date:   Mon Feb 5 15:10:35 2018 +0300
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      sctp: fix dst refcnt leak in sctp_v6_get_dst()
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>      Fixes: dbc2b5e9a09e ("sctp: fix src address selection if using
>>>>>> secondary
>>>>>> addresses for ipv6")
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess we missed something if it's still reproducible.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can check it later this week, unless someone else beat me to it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Tommi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmm, I can't claim that it's exactly the same bug. Perhaps it's
>>>>> another one then. But I am still seeing these:
>>>>>
>>>>> [   58.799130] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
>>>>> Usage count = 4
>>>>> [   60.847138] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
>>>>> Usage count = 4
>>>>> [   62.895093] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
>>>>> Usage count = 4
>>>>> [   64.943103] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
>>>>> Usage count = 4
>>>>>
>>>>> on upstream tree pulled ~12 hours ago.
>>>>>
>>>> Can you write a systemtap script to probe dev_hold, and dev_put, printing
>>>> out a
>>>> backtrace if the device name matches "lo".  That should tell us
>>>> definitively if
>>>> the problem is in the same location or not
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Dmitry, I tested with the reproducer and the kernel .config file that you
>>> sent in the first email in this thread:
>>>
>>> With 4.16-rc2 unable to reproduce.
>>>
>>> With 4.15-rc9 bug reproducible, and I get "unregister_netdevice: waiting for
>>> lo to become free. Usage count = 3"
>>>
>>> With 4.15-rc9 and Alexey's "sctp: fix dst refcnt leak in sctp_v6_get_dst()"
>>> cherry-picked on top, unable to reproduce.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is syzkaller doing something else now to trigger the bug...?
>>> Can you still trigger the bug with the same reproducer?
>>
>> Hi Neil, Tommi,
>>
>> Reviving this old thread about "unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo
>> to become free. Usage count = 3" hangs.
>> I still did not have time to deep dive into what happens there (too
>> many bugs coming from syzbot). But this still actively happens and I
>> suspect accounts to a significant portion of various hang reports,
>> which are quite unpleasant.
>>
>> One idea that could make it all simpler:
>>
>> Is this wait loop in netdev_wait_allrefs() supposed to wait for any
>> prolonged periods of time under any non-buggy conditions? E.g. more
>> than 1-2 minutes?
>> If it only supposed to wait briefly for things that already supposed
>> to be shutting down, and we add a WARNING there after some timeout,
>> then syzbot will report all info how/when it happens, hopefully
>> extracting reproducers, and all the nice things.
>> But this WARNING should not have any false positives under any
>> realistic conditions (e.g. waiting for arrival of remote packets with
>> large timeouts).
>>
>> Looking at some task hung reports, it seems that this code holds some
>> mutexes, takes workqueue thread and prevents any progress with
>> destruction of other devices (and net namespace creation/destruction),
>> so I guess it should not wait for any indefinite periods of time?
>
> I'm working on this currently:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/zesty/+source/linux/+bug/1711407
>
> I added a summary of what I've found to be the cause (or at least, one
> possible cause) of this:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1711407/comments/72
>
> I'm working on a patch to work around the main side-effect of this,
> which is hanging while holding the global net mutex.  Hangs will still
> happen (e.g. if a dst leaks) but should not affect anything else,
> other than a leak of the dst and its net namespace.
>
> Fixing the dst leaks is important too, of course, but a dst leak (or
> other cause) shouldn't break the entire system.

Leaking some memory is definitely better than hanging the system.

So I've made syzkaller to recognize "unregister_netdevice: waiting for
(.*) to become free" as a kernel bug:
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/commit/7a67784ca8bdc3b26cce2f0ec9a40d2dd9ec9396
Unfortunately it does not make it catch these bugs because creating a
net namespace per test is too damn slow, so namespaces are reused for
lots of tests and when/if it's eventually destroyed it's already too
late to find root cause.

But I've run a one-off experiment with prompt net namespace
destruction and syzkaller was able to easily extract a C reproducer:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dvyukov/d571e8fff24e127ca48a8c4790d42bfa/raw/52050e93ba9afbb5126b9d7bb39b7e71a82af016/gistfile1.txt

On upstream 16e205cf42da1f497b10a4a24f563e6c0d574eec with this config:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dvyukov/9663c57443adb21f2795b92ef0829d62/raw/bbea0652e23746096dd56855a28f6c681aebcdee/gistfile1.txt

this gives me:

[   83.183198] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
Usage count = 9
[   85.231202] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
Usage count = 9
...
[  523.511205] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
Usage count = 9
...

This is generated from this syzkaller program:

r0 = socket$inet6(0xa, 0x1, 0x84)
setsockopt$inet6_IPV6_XFRM_POLICY(r0, 0x29, 0x23,
&(0x7f0000000380)={{{@in6=@remote={0xfe, 0x80, [], 0xbb},
@in=@dev={0xac, 0x14, 0x14}, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xa}, {}, {}, 0x0,
0x0, 0x1}, {{@in=@local={0xac, 0x14, 0x14, 0xaa}, 0x0, 0x32}, 0x0,
@in=@local={0xac, 0x14, 0x14, 0xaa}, 0x3504}}, 0xe8)
bind$inet6(r0, &(0x7f0000000000)={0xa, 0x4e20}, 0x1c)
connect$inet(r0, &(0x7f0000000040)={0x2, 0x4e20, @dev={0xac, 0x14,
0x14, 0xd}}, 0x10)
syz_emit_ethernet(0x3e, &(0x7f00000001c0)={@local={[0xaa, 0xaa, 0xaa,
0xaa, 0xaa], 0xaa}, @dev={[0xaa, 0xaa, 0xaa, 0xaa, 0xaa]}, [],
{@ipv6={0x86dd, {0x0, 0x6, "50a09c", 0x8, 0xffffff11, 0x0,
@remote={0xfe, 0x80, [], 0xbb}, @local={0xfe, 0x80, [], 0xaa}, {[],
@udp={0x0, 0x4e20, 0x8}}}}}}, &(0x7f0000000040))

So this seems to be related to IPv6 and/or xfrm and is potentially
caused by external packets (that syz_emit_ethernet call).