RE: Userspace woes with 5.1.5 due to TIPC

[Jon Maloy]

Hi Mihai,
Make sure the following three commits are present in TIPC *after* the offending commit:

commit 532b0f7ece4c "tipc: fix modprobe tipc failed after switch order of device registration"

Since that patch one was flawed it had to be reverted:
commit 5593530e5694  ""Revert tipc: fix modprobe tipc failed after switch order of device registration"

It was then replaced with this one: 
commit 526f5b851a96 "tipc: fix modprobe tipc failed after switch order of device registration"

BR
Jon Maloy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 30-May-19 15:34
> To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Ying Xue <ying.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Jon Maloy
> <jon.maloy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Userspace woes with 5.1.5 due to TIPC
> 
> Hi
> 
> 
> I've had a few issues lately (mainly bad RAM only, hopefully, which should be
> fixed now) and generally upgraded everything.
> 
> With 5.1.5, though, some programs exhibited very weird behavior: Chromium
> crashed while starting up due to not being able to launch a new zygote
> process, albeit started when using --no-sandbox (likely because that didn't try
> to create other processes); Opera (based upon Chromium) failed to start with
> SIGILL, but that was only a red herring triggered by the same problem I guess;
> Firefox started up, but was unable to render any content because its multi-
> process IPC didn't work (i.e., it couldn't start new rendering processes).
> Interestingly, most other programs I use daily still worked, even though they
> used networking and IPC (command-line browsers, MATE Terminal, electron-
> based programs), so this bug didn't make the machine completely unusable.
> 
> Since I've been using 5.1.3 without problems before and the issue was
> straight-forward to test for, I did a bisection run and came to that conclusion:
> 
> ================================ bisect log
> ================================
> Bisecting: 124 revisions left to test after this (roughly 7 steps)
> [ee4c3e283f8f3286bea60e9038adc70436d87d02] s390/mm: convert to the
> generic get_user_pages_fast code
> Bisecting: 62 revisions left to test after this (roughly 6 steps)
> [f7346dc0634cbad7fca5d951b91ad2e13f497b0b] clk: mediatek: Disable
> tuner_en before change PLL rate
> Bisecting: 30 revisions left to test after this (roughly 5 steps)
> [5ac8e698528149bb1618111d64e22bd8bb784256] parisc: Allow live-
> patching of __meminit functions
> Bisecting: 15 revisions left to test after this (roughly 4 steps)
> [c89c9af998fef2af4e5b2b35fb723693f17e05ef] mlxsw: core: Prevent QSFP
> module initialization for old hardware
> Bisecting: 7 revisions left to test after this (roughly 3 steps)
> [912d8c4cf9f19c93dfdf06b822eeadec9d71494d] net: test nouarg before
> dereferencing zerocopy pointers
> Bisecting: 3 revisions left to test after this (roughly 2 steps)
> [92166190b8282d9925e90a66961879782c50d037] rtnetlink: always put
> IFLA_LINK for links with a link-netnsid
> Bisecting: 1 revision left to test after this (roughly 1 step)
> [7d29c9ad0ed525c1b10e29cfca4fb1eece1e93fb] vsock/virtio: free packets
> during the socket release
> Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this (roughly 0 steps)
> [2d08f204328acaf85ac2c6fe5d5d9d4760f12e13] tipc: fix modprobe tipc
> failed after switch order of device registration
> 2d08f204328acaf85ac2c6fe5d5d9d4760f12e13 is the first bad commit
> commit 2d08f204328acaf85ac2c6fe5d5d9d4760f12e13
> Author: Junwei Hu <hujunwei4@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri May 17 19:27:34 2019 +0800
> 
>     tipc: fix modprobe tipc failed after switch order of device registration
> 
>     [ Upstream commit 532b0f7ece4cb2ffd24dc723ddf55242d1188e5e ]
> 
>     Error message printed:
>     modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'tipc': Address family not
>     supported by protocol.
>     when modprobe tipc after the following patch: switch order of
>     device registration, commit 7e27e8d6130c
>     ("tipc: switch order of device registration to fix a crash")
> 
>     Because sock_create_kern(net, AF_TIPC, ...) is called by
>     tipc_topsrv_create_listener() in the initialization process
>     of tipc_net_ops, tipc_socket_init() must be execute before that.
> 
>     I move tipc_socket_init() into function tipc_init_net().
> 
>     Fixes: 7e27e8d6130c
>     ("tipc: switch order of device registration to fix a crash")
>     Signed-off-by: Junwei Hu <hujunwei4@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reported-by: Wang Wang <wangwang2@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Kang Zhou <zhoukang7@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Suanming Mou <mousuanming@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> :040000 040000 13d9b014338ccf6ae0c32bdb2be779870bbf97da
> df8a9c2a9f1f8df212999c2904632a77adb03782 M	net
> =============================== / bisect log
> ===============================
> 
> My kernel config is tailored to my machine, so probably not very useful to
> others, but I'm including it anyway. The most obvious point being
> CONFIG_TIPC=y, i.e., TIPC being built statically into the kernel. Not sure why
> I've done that in the first place because TIPC is not something that would be
> useful to me, but I often err on the "might be useful later" side. I might rethink
> that decision and just disable TIPC for good in the future.
> 
> 
> With this patch applied, the kernel generally spews out a few wonky messages
> that I've never seen before. For completeness sake, I've attached a ring buffer
> log from running the last working and first bad version.
> 
> ================================ TIPC messages
> ================================
> NET: Registered protocol family 30
> Failed to register TIPC socket type
> =============================== / TIPC messages
> ===============================
> 
> 
> Now, blindly reverting the patch would obviously a bad idea, since that would
> mean trading one regression for the (initial) other one. I'm thus CCing the
> maintainers to help.
> 
> 
> 
> Mihai