Subject: Re: [2.6.30-rc1] NULL pointer dereference

From: Ed Tomlinson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 20:34:17 -0400

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 10:12:50 Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I got tired of rebuilding the drm and radeon modules to support my R600 card so I decided to
> > try .30-rc.  It lasted about 30 minutes then I got the exception below when start a freenet node.
> > 
> > The ipv6 interface is supplied by www.sixxs.org but my tunnel broker is currently down so aside
> > from the local link address on eth0 (and locl) there are no ipv6 intefaces on my box.
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > Ed Tomlinson
> > 
> > [ 1982.214334] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000062
> > [ 1982.215132] IP: [<ffffffff805d7d61>] ipv4_rcv_saddr_equal+0x61/0x70
> > [ 1982.215132] PGD 1495d6067 PUD 0
> > [ 1982.215132] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> > [ 1982.215132] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:05.0/enable
> > [ 1982.215132] CPU 1
> > [ 1982.215132] Modules linked in: btrfs zlib_deflate zlib_inflate crc32c libcrc32c radeon drm bridge stp rfcomm llc bnep l2cap bluet]
> > [ 1982.338205] Pid: 21779, comm: java Not tainted 2.6.30-rc1-crc #1 System Product Name
> > [ 1982.338205] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff805d7d61>]  [<ffffffff805d7d61>] ipv4_rcv_saddr_equal+0x61/0x70
> > [ 1982.338205] RSP: 0018:ffff880122d21d28  EFLAGS: 00010246
> > [ 1982.338205] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000001000 RCX: 00000000000e1000
> > [ 1982.338205] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8801250da840 RDI: ffff880147cf8000
> > [ 1982.338205] RBP: ffff880122d21d38 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000000000100007f
> > [ 1982.338205] R10: ffff88015f4a85c8 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8801250da840
> > [ 1982.338205] R13: ffff8801250da8d8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff880147cf8000
> > [ 1982.338205] FS:  00007f2da29f6950(0000) GS:ffff880028059000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > [ 1982.338205] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > [ 1982.338205] CR2: 0000000000000062 CR3: 000000013f1f1000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> > [ 1982.338205] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > [ 1982.338205] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > [ 1982.338205] Process java (pid: 21779, threadinfo ffff880122d20000, task ffff8801310ec4a0)
> > [ 1982.840593] Stack:
> > [ 1982.840593]  ffff880122d21d58 0000000057ae6420 ffff880122d21d98 ffffffffa033847b
> > [ 1982.847599]  0000000000007918 00000000805bafe5 ffff880147cf85a8 00000000ffffffff
> > [ 1982.847599]  0000000057ae6420 ffff8801250da858 ffff880147cf8000 ffff88015f279180
> > [ 1982.847599] Call Trace:
> > [ 1982.847599]  [<ffffffffa033847b>] ipv6_rcv_saddr_equal+0x1bb/0x250 [ipv6]
> > [ 1982.847599]  [<ffffffffa03505a8>] inet6_csk_bind_conflict+0x88/0xd0 [ipv6]
> > [ 1982.847599]  [<ffffffff805bb18e>] inet_csk_get_port+0x1ee/0x400
> > [ 1982.847599]  [<ffffffffa0319b7f>] inet6_bind+0x1cf/0x3a0 [ipv6]
> > [ 1982.847599]  [<ffffffff8056d17c>] ? sockfd_lookup_light+0x3c/0xd0
> > [ 1982.847599]  [<ffffffff8056ed49>] sys_bind+0x89/0x100
> > [ 1982.847599]  [<ffffffff80613ea2>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
> > [ 1982.847599]  [<ffffffff8020bf9b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> > [ 1982.847599] Code: 39 c2 0f 94 c0 0f b6 d0 eb 05 ba 01 00 00 00 89 d0 48 8b 55 f8 65 48 33 14 25 28 00 00 00 75 14 c9 c3 48 8b 86
> > [ 1982.847599] RIP  [<ffffffff805d7d61>] ipv4_rcv_saddr_equal+0x61/0x70
> > [ 1982.847599]  RSP <ffff880122d21d28>
> > [ 1982.847599] CR2: 0000000000000062
> > [ 1983.173477] ---[ end trace a12cea0f8928336a ]---
> > [ 1983.187700] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
> > [ 1983.207275] Pid: 21779, comm: java Tainted: G      D    2.6.30-rc1-crc #1
> > [ 1983.228189] Call Trace:
> > [ 1983.235712]  [<ffffffff8060f5a1>] panic+0xc1/0x190
> > [ 1983.250470]  [<ffffffff8020c96d>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
> > [ 1983.267104]  [<ffffffff80252fcb>] ? oops_exit+0x3b/0x60
> > [ 1983.283201]  [<ffffffff80616046>] oops_end+0xb6/0xd0
> > [ 1983.283205]  [<ffffffff80230970>] no_context+0x110/0x290
> > [ 1983.283208]  [<ffffffff80230c7d>] __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x18d/0x230
> > [ 1983.283212]  [<ffffffff80618129>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x69/0x70
> > [ 1983.283216]  [<ffffffff8061468a>] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x70
> > 
> 
> Thanks for letting us know.  I am testing a patch right now.  Give it a try
> when you get a chance.  It it works correctly, I'll resubmit with attribution.

I have been running a script to start and stop freenet every 10 minutes.  Its been going
over 10 hours without problem.  Think this has fixed the problem.

ACK Ed Tomlinson <[email-masked]>

Thanks
Ed