Re: AW: PROBLEM: Kernel Oops in UDP stack

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Aug 02 2018 - 12:04:31 EST




On 08/02/2018 02:17 AM, David Laight wrote:
> From: Marcel Hellwig
>> Sent: 01 August 2018 11:36
>>>> [<c0228adc>] (udp_recvmsg+0x284/0x33c) from [<c02306e0>] (inet_recvmsg+0x38/0x4c):
>> net/ipv4/udp.c:1234
>>>
>>> sin->sin_addr.s_addr = ip_hdr(skb)->saddr;
>>>
>>> Unaligned access trap (virtual address c14fe63a), so either sin or ip_hdr(skb) are not on a 32bit
>> alignment
>>>
>>> Can you produce the disassembly of the trapping instruction ?
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/hellow554/6b11c6c0827d5db80a7e66f71f5636ff#file-net_uipv4_udp-lst-L1892-L1895
>>
>> sin->sin_addr.s_addr = ip_hdr(skb)->saddr;
>> c0228ad8: e5943080 ldr r3, [r4, #128] ; 0x80
>> c0228adc: e593300c ldr r3, [r3, #12]
>> c0228ae0: e5823004 str r3, [r2, #4]
>
> There are actually 2 faults, difficult to quickly sort out the merged tracebacks.
> You are also running a rather old kernel: Linux version 3.4.113.
>
> It may well be that whichever ethernet driver generated the misaligned frame
> has since been fixed.

A misalign frame driver problem would have faulted earlier in IP stack,
much before we perform the copy to user space in udp_recvmsg()