Subject: IP: Send an ICMP "Fragment Reassembly Timeout" message when enabling connection track

From: Jamie Iles <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:22:28 +0000

Hi,

I have an ARM based board that I'm running off of today's next tree. When
booting with a rootfs over NFS I regularly see a crash with the following log:

huh, entered c0237b8c with preempt_count 00000103, exited with 00000102?
kernel BUG at kernel/timer.c:1035!
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
pgd = c0004000
[00000000] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 817 [#1] PREEMPT
last sysfs file: /sys/class/mtd/mtd6ro/dev
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0    Not tainted  (2.6.33-rc6-next-20100202-picochip-arm2009q3+ #46)
PC is at __bug+0x18/0x24
LR is at __bug+0x14/0x24
pc : [<c0024240>]    lr : [<c002423c>]    psr: 60000113
sp : c03a3ec8  ip : c03cb880  fp : c03ef9c8
r10: c03efdc8  r9 : c03efbc8  r8 : c03effc8
r7 : c7e171b4  r6 : c03ef1a0  r5 : c03a2000  r4 : 00000000
r3 : 00000000  r2 : c03a3ebc  r1 : c033ae76  r0 : 00000029
Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment kernel
Control: 00c5387d  Table: 07e58008  DAC: 00000017
Process swapper (pid: 0, stack limit = 0xc03a2268)
Stack: (0xc03a3ec8 to 0xc03a4000)
3ec0:                   00000000 c0046a54 00000002 00000000 c00468d8 00000000
3ee0: 00000000 00000103 c7e17180 c0237b8c 00000002 c095601c 00000000 c036c3df
3f00: c03a3f00 c03a3f00 00000000 00000000 c03a2000 00000004 c03ef004 00000103
3f20: 0000000a 00000101 00000001 c003fdf4 c03ad92c 00000000 c03a73c0 00000000
3f40: 00000024 c03a2000 00000000 00000010 00000002 00000001 c03a2000 0001bf40
3f60: 00000000 c003ff64 00000024 c0020070 ffffffff fe060000 00000010 c02a6170
3f80: c0021a70 00000000 00000000 c03a2000 c03a2000 c001d3bc c001d3b8 c03a6a18
3fa0: 0001bfa8 410fb767 0001bf40 00000000 c03a73e8 c03a3fc8 c0021a70 c0021a74
3fc0: 60000013 ffffffff c03a2000 c0021f40 c094b0e8 c0008920 c0008490 00000000
3fe0: 00000000 c001d3bc 00000000 00c5387d c03ce470 00008034 00000000 00000000
[<c0024240>] (__bug+0x18/0x24) from [<c0046a54>] (run_timer_softirq+0x308/0x36c)
[<c0046a54>] (run_timer_softirq+0x308/0x36c) from [<c003fdf4>] (__do_softirq+0x1
08/0x220)
[<c003fdf4>] (__do_softirq+0x108/0x220) from [<c003ff64>] (irq_exit+0x58/0xb0)
[<c003ff64>] (irq_exit+0x58/0xb0) from [<c0020070>] (asm_do_IRQ+0x70/0x8c)
[<c0020070>] (asm_do_IRQ+0x70/0x8c) from [<c02a6170>] (__irq_svc+0x50/0xd4)
Exception stack(0xc03a3f80 to 0xc03a3fc8)
3f80: c0021a70 00000000 00000000 c03a2000 c03a2000 c001d3bc c001d3b8 c03a6a18
3fa0: 0001bfa8 410fb767 0001bf40 00000000 c03a73e8 c03a3fc8 c0021a70 c0021a74
3fc0: 60000013 ffffffff
[<c02a6170>] (__irq_svc+0x50/0xd4) from [<c0021a74>] (default_idle+0x28/0x2c)
[<c0021a74>] (default_idle+0x28/0x2c) from [<c0021f40>] (cpu_idle+0x50/0xa4)
[<c0021f40>] (cpu_idle+0x50/0xa4) from [<c0008920>] (start_kernel+0x248/0x29c)
[<c0008920>] (start_kernel+0x248/0x29c) from [<00008034>] (0x8034)
Code: e1a01000 e59f000c eb09f9bf e3a03000 (e5833000)

The function the timer called was ip_expire():

[jamiei@wear linux-2.6]$ arm-none-linux-gnueabi-addr2line -e vmlinux c0237b8c
/home/jamiei/linux-2.6/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c:190

Reverting the commit (e9017b55189355e9e6569990a18919e83f35bccb) makes this
crash go away. The kernel is built with preempt debugging but I don't get any
other warnings.

Jamie