On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 14:43 +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Kernel generates a lot of warnings when dst entry reference counter
> overflows and becomes negative. This patch prints address of dst entry,
> its refcount and then resets reference counter to INT_MAX/2.
> 
> That bug was seen several times at machines with outdated 3.10.y kernels.
> Most like it's already fixed in upstream. Anyway flood of that warnings
> completely kills machine and makes further debugging impossible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebni...@yandex-team.ru>
> ---
>  net/core/dst.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/dst.c b/net/core/dst.c
> index e956ce6d1378..2ed91082b3cf 100644
> --- a/net/core/dst.c
> +++ b/net/core/dst.c
> @@ -284,7 +284,8 @@ void dst_release(struct dst_entry *dst)
>               int newrefcnt;
>  
>               newrefcnt = atomic_dec_return(&dst->__refcnt);
> -             WARN_ON(newrefcnt < 0);
> +             if (WARN(newrefcnt < 0, "dst: %p refcnt: %d\n", dst, newrefcnt))
> +                     atomic_set(&dst->__refcnt, INT_MAX / 2);
>               if (unlikely(dst->flags & DST_NOCACHE) && !newrefcnt)
>                       call_rcu(&dst->rcu_head, dst_destroy_rcu);
>       }


WARN_ON_ONCE() if you want, but setting __refcnt like this is absolutely
a dirty hack.



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