ipv6: oops in datagram.c line 260
From: Chris Ruehl <hidden>
Date: 2014-12-10 05:43:06
Hi all, We running a Dell server which crash frequently with (dell crash video snapshot) vanilla 3.14.25 Capture viewed here: http://www.gtsys.com.hk/~chris/datagram_c_line260.png The capture don't sadly don't show the full trace, so we lack on information. 1st line I can see in the crash video from the idrac : tcp_transmit_skb+0x461 RIP [<ffffffff815da587>] ipv6_local_error+0x17/0x140 The null pointer happen: Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... Reading symbols from net/ipv6/datagram.o...done. (gdb) list *(ipv6_local_error+0x17) 0xae7 is in ipv6_local_error (net/ipv6/datagram.c:260). 255 struct ipv6_pinfo *np = inet6_sk(sk); 256 struct sock_exterr_skb *serr; 257 struct ipv6hdr *iph; 258 struct sk_buff *skb; 259 260 if (!np->recverr) 261 return; 262 263 skb = alloc_skb(sizeof(struct ipv6hdr), GFP_ATOMIC); 264 if (!skb) (gdb) quit We running a 6in4 with ipsec tunnel on the 6. I found a pull request from Steffen Klassert here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/281469 Which might be relevant to this problem. For time being I add a if (np == NULL){ LIMIT_NETDEBUG(KERN_DEBUG "ipv6_pinfo is NULL\n"); return; } as work around to stop the server crashing With kind regards Chris