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Re: ip_rcv_finish() NULL pointer and possibly related Oopses

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2015-08-27 13:00:12
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On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 13:54 -0700, Michael Marineau wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Chuck Ebbert [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:46:59 +0000
Shaun Crampton [off-list ref] wrote:
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Testing our app at scale on Google¹s GCE, running ~1000 CoreOS hosts: over
approximately 1 hour, I see about 1 in 50 hosts hit one of the Oopses
below and then reboot (I¹m not sure if the different oopses are related to
each other).

The app is Project Calico, which is a datacenter networking fabric.
calico-felix, the process named below, is our per-host agent.  The
per-host agent is responsible for reading the network information from a
central server and applying "ip route² and "iptables" updates to the
kernel.  We¹re running on CoreOS, with about 100  docker containers/veths
pairs running on each host.  calico-felix is running inside one of those
containers. We also run the BIRD BGP stack to redistribute routes around
the datacenter.  The errors happen more frequently while Calico is under
load.

I¹m not sure where to go from here.  I can reproduce these issues easily
at that scale but I haven¹t managed to boil it down to a small-scale repro
scenario for further investigation (yet).
What in the world is going on with those call traces? E.g.:
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[ 4513.712008]  <IRQ>
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff81486751>] ? ip_rcv_finish+0x81/0x360
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff814870e4>] ip_rcv+0x2a4/0x400
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff814866d0>] ? inet_del_offload+0x40/0x40
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff814491b3>] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x6c3/0x9a0
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff8143b667>] ? build_skb+0x17/0x90
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff814494a8>] __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff81449523>] netif_receive_skb_internal+0x33/0xa0
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff814495ac>] netif_receive_skb_sk+0x1c/0x70
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffffa00f772b>] 0xffffffffa00f772b
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff814491b3>] ? __netif_receive_skb_core+0x6c3/0x9a0
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffffa00f7d81>] 0xffffffffa00f7d81
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff81449979>] net_rx_action+0x159/0x340
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff810715f4>] __do_softirq+0xf4/0x290
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff810719fd>] irq_exit+0xad/0xc0
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff815528ba>] do_IRQ+0x5a/0xf0
[ 4513.712008]  [<ffffffff815507ae>] common_interrupt+0x6e/0x6e
[ 4513.712008]  <EOI>
There are two functions in the call trace that the kernel knows
nothing about. How did they get in there?

And there is really executable code in there, as can be seen from a
later trace:
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[ 4123.003006]  <IRQ>
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8147d477>] nf_iterate+0x57/0x80
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8147d537>] nf_hook_slow+0x97/0x100
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81486e32>] ip_local_deliver+0x92/0xa0
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81486a30>] ? ip_rcv_finish+0x360/0x360
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81486751>] ip_rcv_finish+0x81/0x360
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814870e4>] ip_rcv+0x2a4/0x400
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814866d0>] ? inet_del_offload+0x40/0x40
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814491b3>] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x6c3/0x9a0
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8143b667>] ? build_skb+0x17/0x90
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814494a8>] __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81449523>] netif_receive_skb_internal+0x33/0xa0
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814495ac>] netif_receive_skb_sk+0x1c/0x70
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffffa00d472b>] 0xffffffffa00d472b
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffffa00d4d81>] 0xffffffffa00d4d81
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81449979>] net_rx_action+0x159/0x340
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff810715f4>] __do_softirq+0xf4/0x290
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff810719fd>] irq_exit+0xad/0xc0
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff815528ba>] do_IRQ+0x5a/0xf0
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff815507ae>] common_interrupt+0x6e/0x6e
[ 4123.003006]  <EOI>
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81483a3d>] ? __ip_route_output_key+0x31d/0x860
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814e2e95>] ? xfrm_lookup_route+0x5/0x70
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81484224>] ? ip_route_output_flow+0x54/0x60
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8148ca6a>] ip_queue_xmit+0x36a/0x3d0
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814a4799>] tcp_transmit_skb+0x4b9/0x990
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814a4d85>] tcp_write_xmit+0x115/0xe90
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814a5d72>] __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x32/0xd0
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8149443f>] tcp_push+0xef/0x120
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81497cb5>] tcp_sendmsg+0xc5/0xb20
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff810d74c9>] ? lock_hrtimer_base.isra.22+0x29/0x50
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff814c2d04>] inet_sendmsg+0x64/0xa0
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff811e94b5>] ? __fget_light+0x25/0x70
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8142d74d>] sock_sendmsg+0x3d/0x50
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8142dc12>] SYSC_sendto+0x102/0x1a0
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8110f864>] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xb4/0x110
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff810224fc>] ? do_audit_syscall_entry+0x6c/0x70
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff81023cf3>] ?
syscall_trace_enter_phase1+0x103/0x160
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8142e75e>] SyS_sendto+0xe/0x10
[ 4123.003006]  [<ffffffff8154fc6e>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x71
[ 4123.003006] Code: <48> 8b 88 40 03 00 00 e8 1d dd dd ff 5d c3 0f 1f 00
41 83 b9 80 00
[ 4123.003006] RIP  [<ffffffffa0233027>] 0xffffffffa0233027
[ 4123.003006]  RSP <ffff88021fc03b58>
Presumably the same two functions as before (loaded at a different
base address but same offsets, 0xd81 and 0x72b). And then nf_iterate
call into another unknown function, and there really is code there
and it's consistent with the oops. And the kernel thinks it's
outside of any normal text section, so it does not try to dump any
code from before the instruction pointer.

   0:   48 8b 88 40 03 00 00    mov    0x340(%rax),%rcx
   7:   e8 1d dd dd ff          callq  0xffffffffffdddd29
   c:   5d                      pop    %rbp
   d:   c3                      retq

Did you write your own module loader or something?
These are stock kernels, with the exception that we include the secure
boot patch set:
https://github.com/coreos/coreos-overlay/tree/master/sys-kernel/coreos-sources/files/4.1
Been a while since kmod got updated so CoreOS is currently shipping
with kmod-15 but beyond being a bit old there isn't anything special
about the module loader.

So nothing particularly magical going on here that I know of.

For reference the original bug report includes a few more varieties of
stack traces: https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/435
One of these traces mentions ipv4_dst_destroy()

Make sure you backported commit
10e2eb878f3ca07ac2f05fa5ca5e6c4c9174a27a
("udp: fix dst races with multicast early demux")
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