Re: IPv6 FIB related crash with MACVLANs in 3.9.11+ kernel.
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hidden>
Date: 2014-09-29 19:12:57
On Mo, 2014-09-29 at 11:44 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
On 09/29/2014 11:15 AM, Hongmei Li wrote:quoted
Thanks Hannes for your prompt response! We just encountered this issue two times in our product stability test so far, and my panic backtrace is the exactly same with the one reported here. I don't know how to reproduce the issue till now. I tried several method, unfortunately, I can not reproduce it by myself. :(We could reproduce it easily using our user-space tool that creates 1000 mac-vlans, configures them, dumps routing tables, etc. But, we could only reproduce it when we had the ixgbe ports unplugged. If they were properly connected to a switch, we did not see any crashes. My original email on 2/3/2014 has more details, and the thread that follows has some info on debugging we did at the time.
I just tried to reproduce the problem, disabling the port on a switch and setting up 1000 macvlans on a ixgbe, enabling ipv6 and dumping routing tables. Unluckily I had no success. :( Any more hints? Bye, Hannes