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SubjectRe: Problems with /proc/net/tcp6 - possible bug - ipv6
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Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011 à 22:30 -0800, PK a écrit :
> Creating many ipv6 connections hits a ceiling on connections/fds ; okay, fine.
>
> But in my case I'm seeing millions of entries spring up within a few seconds and
> then vanish within a few minutes, in /proc/net/tcp6 (vanish due to garbage
> collection?)
>
> Furthermore I can trigger this easily on vanilla kernels from 2.6.36 to
> 2.6.38-rc1-next-20110121 inside a ubuntu 10.10 amd64 vm, causing the kernel to
> spew warnings. There is also some corruption in the logs (see kernel-sample.log
> line 296), but that may be unrelated.
>
> More explanation, kernel config of the primary machine I saw this on, sample
> ruby script to reproduce (inside the ubuntu VMs I apt-get and use ruby-1.9.1),
> are located at
> https://github.com/runningdogx/net6-bug
>
> Seems to only affect 64-bit. So far I have not been able to reproduce on 32-bit
> ubuntu VMs of any kernel version.
> Seems to only affect IPv6. So far I have not been able to reproduce using IPv4
> connections (and watching /proc/net/tcp of course).
> Does not trigger the bug if the connections are made to ::1. Only externally
> routable local and global IPv6 addresses seem to cause problems.
> Seems to have been introduced between 2.6.35 and 2.6.36 (see README on github
> for more kernels I've tried)
>
> All the tested Ubuntu VMs are stock 10.10 userland, with vanilla kernels (the
> latest ubuntu kernel is 2.6.35-something, and my initial test didn't show it
> suffering from this problem)
>
> Originally noticed on separate Gentoo 64-bit non-vm system when doing web
> benchmarking.
>
> not subscribed, so please keep me in cc although I'll try to follow the thread
>
>

Hi PK (Sorry, your real name is hidden)

I could not reproduce this on current linux-2.6 kernel.

How many vcpus running in your VM, and memory ?

Note : a recent commit did fix /proc/net/tcp[6] behavior

commit 1bde5ac49398a064c753bb490535cfad89e99a5f
Author: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Dec 23 09:32:46 2010 -0800

tcp: fix listening_get_next()

Alexey Vlasov found /proc/net/tcp could sometime loop and display
millions of sockets in LISTEN state.

In 2.6.29, when we converted TCP hash tables to RCU, we left two
sk_next() calls in listening_get_next().

We must instead use sk_nulls_next() to properly detect an end of chain.

Reported-by: Alexey Vlasov <renton@renton.name>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


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