On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:51:06AM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Commit f14d80834 "datapath: genl_notify() on port disappearances" frees the
> > vport before passing it to ovs_vport_cmd_build_info(), which reads the
> > freed data.
> >
> > Without this commit, the following commands consistently trigger a kernel
> > BUG report on my test VM (which has slab debugging enabled) on 3 attempts:
> >
> > ?? ??tunctl
> > ?? ??ovs-vsctl add-port br0 tap0
> > ?? ??tunctl -d tap0
> >
> > With this commit, I consistently don't see the BUG, on a few hundred tries
> > in a tight loop.
> >
> > The interesting log information is:
> >
> > ?? ??device tap0 entered promiscuous mode
> > ?? ??device tap0 left promiscuous mode
> > ?? ??BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 6b6b6ba7
> > ?? ??IP: [<c88269ed>] get_vport_protected+0x8/0x52 [openvswitch_mod]
> > ?? ??*pde = 00000000
> > ?? ??Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> > ?? ??last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/net/eth1/carrier
> > ?? ??Modules linked in: brcompat_mod openvswitch_mod
> >
> > ?? ??Pid: 653, comm: tunctl Not tainted 2.6.37+ #25 /Bochs
> > ?? ??EIP: 0060:[<c88269ed>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
> > ?? ??EIP is at get_vport_protected+0x8/0x52 [openvswitch_mod]
> > ?? ??EAX: 6b6b6ba7 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000
> > ?? ??ESI: c6d98400 EDI: c5c32074 EBP: c6ff1de8 ESP: c6ff1de4
> > ?? ?? DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
> > ?? ??Process tunctl (pid: 653, ti=c6ff0000 task=c5c3a820 task.ti=c6ff0000)
> > ?? ??Stack:
> > ?? ?? 00000000 c6ff1df8 c8826b1d 6b6b6b6b c6d77ab0 c6ff1e14 c8826dc6 
> > c7489160
> > ?? ?? 00000f40 c6d98400 c6d77ab0 00000000 c6ff1e3c c88286fa 00000000 
> > 00000000
> > ?? ?? 00000002 02ff1e34 00000000 c6d77ab0 c6df98a0 00000006 c6ff1e54 
> > c8828aa2
> > ?? ??Call Trace:
> > ?? ?? [<c8826b1d>] ? get_dpifindex+0x1b/0x31 [openvswitch_mod]
> > ?? ?? [<c8826dc6>] ? ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info+0x40/0x183 [openvswitch_mod]
> > ?? ?? [<c88286fa>] ? ovs_vport_cmd_build_info+0x3f/0x62 [openvswitch_mod]
> > ?? ?? [<c8828aa2>] ? dp_device_event+0x56/0xb0 [openvswitch_mod]
> > ?? ?? [<c1046c0d>] ? notifier_call_chain+0x6d/0x96
> > ?? ?? [<c1046c52>] ? raw_notifier_call_chain+0xc/0xe
> > ?? ?? [<c1254c10>] ? call_netdevice_notifiers+0x3c/0x43
> > ?? ?? [<c1255029>] ? rollback_registered_many+0xd4/0x18b
> > ?? ?? [<c1255146>] ? rollback_registered+0x23/0x28
> > ?? ?? [<c1255199>] ? unregister_netdevice_queue+0x4e/0x6b
> > ?? ?? [<c1227d2e>] ? tun_chr_close+0x3f/0x76
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
> 
> Good catch, thanks.
> 
> Acked-by: Jesse Gross <[email protected]>

Thanks, pushed with your ack.
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