Subject: Re: kernels > v4.12 oops/crash with ipsec-traffic: bisected to b838d5e1c5b6e57b10ec8af2268824041e3ea911: ipv4: mark DST_NOGC and remove the operation of dst_free()

From: Wolfgang Walter <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:46:04 +0200

Am Montag, 10. September 2018, 10:18:47 schrieb Kristian Evensen:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks everyone for all the effort in debugging this issue.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 8:39 AM Steffen Klassert
> 
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > The easy fix that could be backported to stable would be
> > to check skb->dst for NULL and drop the packet in that case.
> 
> Thought I should just chime in and say that we deployed this
> work-around when we started observing the error back in June. Since
> then we have not seen any crashes. Also, we have instrumented some of
> our kernels to count the number of times the error is hit (overall +
> consecutive). Compared to the overall number of packets, the error
> happens very rarely. With our workloads, we on average see the error
> once every couple of days.
> 

Would you mind send us yout patch (with the accounting) so that we can check 
how often that happens here?

Regards,
-- 
Wolfgang Walter
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