Hello.

On 10/27/2015 01:52 AM, Yasushi SHOJI wrote:

In a low memory situation the following kernel oops occurs:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000050
pgd = 8490c000
[00000050] *pgd=4651e831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] PREEMPT ARM
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0    Not tainted  (3.4-at16 #9)
PC is at skb_put+0x10/0x98
LR is at sh_eth_poll+0x2c8/0xa10
pc : [<8035f780>]    lr : [<8028bf50>]    psr: 60000113
sp : 84eb1a90  ip : 84eb1ac8  fp : 84eb1ac4
r10: 0000003f  r9 : 000005ea  r8 : 00000000
r7 : 00000000  r6 : 940453b0  r5 : 00030000  r4 : 9381b180
r3 : 00000000  r2 : 00000000  r1 : 000005ea  r0 : 00000000
Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment user
Control: 10c53c7d  Table: 4248c059  DAC: 00000015
Process klogd (pid: 2046, stack limit = 0x84eb02e8)
[...]

This is because netdev_alloc_skb() fails and 'mdp->rx_skbuff[entry]' is left
NULL but sh_eth_rx() later uses it without checking. Add such check...

Reported-by: Yasushi SHOJI <ya...@atmark-techno.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtyl...@cogentembedded.com>

---
This patch is against DaveM's 'net.git' repo.

  drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c |    4 ++--
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: net/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
===================================================================
--- net.orig/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
+++ net/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
@@ -1481,6 +1481,7 @@ static int sh_eth_rx(struct net_device *
                if (mdp->cd->shift_rd0)
                        desc_status >>= 16;

+               skb = mdp->rx_skbuff[entry];
                if (desc_status & (RD_RFS1 | RD_RFS2 | RD_RFS3 | RD_RFS4 |
                                   RD_RFS5 | RD_RFS6 | RD_RFS10)) {
                        ndev->stats.rx_errors++;
@@ -1496,12 +1497,11 @@ static int sh_eth_rx(struct net_device *
                                ndev->stats.rx_missed_errors++;
                        if (desc_status & RD_RFS10)
                                ndev->stats.rx_over_errors++;
-               } else {
+               } else  if (skb) {
                        if (!mdp->cd->hw_swap)
                                sh_eth_soft_swap(
                                        phys_to_virt(ALIGN(rxdesc->addr, 4)),
                                        pkt_len + 2);
-                       skb = mdp->rx_skbuff[entry];
                        mdp->rx_skbuff[entry] = NULL;
                        if (mdp->cd->rpadir)
                                skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN);


This certainly prevents from a bad access, however, some odd thing is
going on.  Once I hit a low memory situation with this patch, network
thorough-put and response is very bad.

telnet, ping, wget takes loong time.

PING 172.16.2.13 (172.16.2.13) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 172.16.2.13: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.223 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.2.13: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.195 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.2.13: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.203 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.2.13: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.219 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.2.13: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=0.165 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.2.13: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=0.171 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.2.13: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=9023 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.2.13: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=8022 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.2.13: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=7014 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.2.13: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=6006 ms

I'll investigate it.

Shoji-san, can I push this patch to net.git? I doubt that it has ill effects in itself -- the reason of the slowdown you're seeing should be somewhere else...

MBR, Sergei

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