Hi, Ilya Maximets.
On 11/19/21 13:23, Ilya Maximets wrote:
On 11/18/21 22:19, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/18/21 11:56 AM, Murilo Opsfelder Araújo wrote:
On 11/16/21 19:31, Ilya Maximets wrote:
On 10/25/21 19:45, David Christensen wrote:
In certain high load situations, such as when creating a large number of
ports on a switch, the parameter 'sock' may be passed to nl_sock_recv__()
as null, resulting in a segmentation fault when 'sock' is later
dereferenced, such as when calling recvmsg().
Hi, David. Thanks for the patch.
It's OK to check for a NULL pointer there, I guess. However,
do you know from where it was actually called? This function,
in general, should not be called without the actual socket,
so we, probably, should fix the caller instead.
Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
Hi, Ilya Maximets.
When I looked at the coredump file, ch->sock was nil and was passed to
nl_sock_recv():
(gdb) l
2701
2702 while (handler->event_offset < handler->n_events) {
2703 int idx = handler->epoll_events[handler->event_offset].data.u32;
2704 struct dpif_channel *ch = &dpif->channels[idx];
(gdb) p idx
$26 = 4
(gdb) p *dpif->channels@5
$27 = {{sock = 0x1001ae88240, last_poll = -9223372036854775808}, {sock =
0x1001aa9a8a0, last_poll = -9223372036854775808}, {sock = 0x1001ae09510,
last_poll = 60634070}, {sock = 0x1001a9dbb60, last_poll = 60756950}, {sock =
0x0,
last_poll = 61340749}}
The above snippet is from lib/dpif-netlink.c and the caller is
dpif_netlink_recv_vport_dispatch().
The channel at idx=4 had sock=0x0, which was passed to nl_sock_recv() via
ch->sock parameter.
In that function, it tried to access sock->fd when calling recvmsg(), causing
the segfault.
I'm not enough experienced in Open vSwitch to explain why sock was nil at that
given index.
The fix seems worth, though.
A few other points of note:
- Test system was a very large configuration (2K CPUs, > 1TB RAM)
- OVS Switch was configured with 6K ports as follows:
# b=br0; cmds=; for i in {1..6000}; do cmds+=" -- add-port $b p$i -- set interface
p$i type=internal"; done
# time sudo ovs-vsctl $cmds
- OVS was installed from RHEL RPM. Build from source did not exhibit the same
problem.
- Unable to reproduce on a different system (128 CPUs, 256GB RAM), even with
10K ports.
Dave
Thanks for all the information. Having a NULL socket in the 'channels'
array doesn't look a good sign. This may mean that even if OVS will
not crash, it may not receive upcalls for certain ports, which is not
good eihter.
Could you provide more info on which RHEL package did you use and which
version you built from source? Maybe we can find the difference.
When the bug was reported internally, the distro package was actually from
Fedora 33 ppc64le.
One difference I've found at that time was regarding the configure options.
From the logs at [0], the distro package was configured with these options:
+ ./configure --build=ppc64le-redhat-linux-gnu
--host=ppc64le-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --disable-dependency-tracking
--prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin
--sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include
--libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--enable-libcapng --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-ssl
--with-dpdk=shared --with-pkidir=/var/lib/openvswitch/pki
And the built-from-source binaries from Dave were built like this:
git clone https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs.git
cd ovs/
git checkout v2.15.0
./boot.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
At that time, I suspected that one (or a combination) of the configure options
was contributing to the issue to manifest.
[0]
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/openvswitch/2.15.0/1.fc33/data/logs/ppc64le/build.log
Was there any suspicious warnings/errors in the OVS log file prior to
the failure? Maybe we run out of file descriptors somewhere due to
the machine size...
None that I could tell. Only the following in the ovs-vswitchd.log:
fatal_signal(revalidator138)|WARN|terminating with signal 11 (signal 11)
Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
Cheers!
--
Murilo
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