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SubjectRe: pskb_expand_head: skb_shared BUG
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 11:45:11AM +1100, Chris Dunlop wrote:
> Heads up...
>
> We've hit this BUG() in v3.10.70, v3.14.27 and v3.18.7:
>
> net/core/skbuff.c:
> 1027 int pskb_expand_head(struct sk_buff *skb, int nhead, int ntail,
> 1028 gfp_t gfp_mask)
> 1029 {
> 1030 int i;
> 1031 u8 *data;
> 1032 int size = nhead + skb_end_offset(skb) + ntail;
> 1033 long off;
> 1034
> 1035 BUG_ON(nhead < 0);
> 1036
> 1037 if (skb_shared(skb))
> 1038 BUG(); <<< BOOM!!!
>
> This appears to be a regression in the 3.10.x stable series:
> we've been running for 11 months on v3.10.33 without problem, we
> upgraded to v3.14.27 and hit the BUG(), than again on upgrading
> to v3.18.7, then again after downgrading to v3.10.70.

Apologies, this was a false alarm.

There was indeed a regression, but it's in the upstream openvswitch code
rather than linux core. (Further details: a sharing of an
otherwise-unshared skb, causing us to hit the BUG() above, introduced in
v2.3, will be fixed in upcoming v2.3.2)

Cheers,

Chris


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