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SubjectRe: Kernel crash on startup - bisected to commit 3b24d854cb35
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On 04/09/2016 12:33 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>> Following a recent pull of the wireless-drivers-next repo. my system got a
>> kernel panic on startup at native_apic_msr_write+0x27. The problem was
>> bisected to commit 3b24d854cb35 ("tcp/dccp: do not touch listener sk_refcnt
>> under synflood"). I am confident of the bisection as a kernel built with the
>> previous commit (3a5d1c0) boots OK.
>>
>> I have not yet captured the entire traceback for the crash, but I do have a
>> crappy photo of the screen that I have attached. The RIP is at
>> native_apic_msr_write+0x27. As this crash is likely configuration dependent,
>> a copy of my .config is also attached. Note that IPv6 is turned off on my
>> machine.
>>
>> Please let me know if any other info is needed.
>
> Can you double check you have this fix ?
>
> commit 8501786929de4616b10b8059ad97abd304a7dddf
> Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Date: Wed Apr 6 22:07:34 2016 -0700
>
> tcp/dccp: fix inet_reuseport_add_sock()
>
> David Ahern reported panics in __inet_hash() caused by my recent commit.
>
> The reason is inet_reuseport_add_sock() was still using
> sk_nulls_for_each_rcu() instead of sk_for_each_rcu().
> SO_REUSEPORT enabled listeners were causing an instant crash.
>
> While chasing this bug, I found that I forgot to clear SOCK_RCU_FREE
> flag, as it is inherited from the parent at clone time.
>
> Fixes: 3b24d854cb35 ("tcp/dccp: do not touch listener sk_refcnt
> under synflood")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Reported-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

No, I did not have that patch. After pulling from net-next to get it, my system
no longer panics.

Note to linux-wireless readers. At the moment, a system built from
wireless-drivers-next will have this problem.

Thanks,

Larry


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