Hi,
after some more tests here is what i came to (patch provided is for
freebsd 6.3 but can be adapted for other versions): it is a dirty hack
and might not be the right solution but it is working in the case i
described earlier and i hope it will help discussing the issue.
It seems that the process that block read all entries available in the
PF_ROUTE socket, do not find the one it is looking for and ends blocked
on the PF_ROUTE socket as no more entries are available after reading
and entry with rtm->rtm_pid == 0 and rtm->rtm_seq == 0.
Damien
Oleksandr Samoylyk wrote:
Damien Deville wrote:
Hi,
we are facing a similar issue with arp blocked in sbwait state.
Here is a way to reproduce it:
- add a bunch of arp entries in your arp table (best is around 255
entries).
- launch two arp -a -d in parallel ('arp -a -d & arp -a -d &')
Both processes will be in concurence to access the table. One process
will successfully nuke all entries of the arp table, the other one
will be blocked in rtmsg function on the read while executing a
RTM_GET or RTM_DELETE command after some time. By instrumenting arp we
noticed that it happened when both process access to the same entry.
Here is a backtrace of the blocked arp on FreeBSD 7.0
(gdb) bt
#0 0x28158f81 in read () from /lib/libc.so.7
#1 0x08049091 in rtmsg ()
#2 0x08049b44 in delete ()
#3 0x0804a1fd in nuke_entry ()
#4 0x08049a77 in search ()
#5 0x08049e75 in main ()
I can reproduce this on FreeBSD 4.11, 6.2 and 6.3, and FreeBSD 7.0.
Any workaround so far?
--
Damien Deville
R&D engineer
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--- arp.c.orig 2006-10-21 07:43:29.000000000 +0200
+++ arp.c 2008-07-23 10:41:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -706,17 +706,28 @@
l = rtm->rtm_msglen;
rtm->rtm_seq = ++seq;
rtm->rtm_type = cmd;
if ((rlen = write(s, (char *)&m_rtmsg, l)) < 0) {
if (errno != ESRCH || cmd != RTM_DELETE) {
warn("writing to routing socket");
return (NULL);
}
}
do {
l = read(s, (char *)&m_rtmsg, sizeof(m_rtmsg));
+ if ( l > 0 && rtm->rtm_seq == 0 && rtm->rtm_pid == 0 )
+ return (NULL); /* something weird happened */
} while (l > 0 && (rtm->rtm_seq != seq || rtm->rtm_pid != pid));
if (l < 0)
warn("read from routing socket");
return (rtm);
}
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