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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat•com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: TUN problems (regression?)
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:50:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121220155001.538bbdb0@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1356046697.21834.3606.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:38:17 -0800
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 18:16 -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
> > [CC'ing netdev in case this is a known problem I just missed ...]
> > 
> > Hi Jason,
> > 
> > I started doing some more testing with the multiqueue TUN changes and I ran 
> > into a problem when running tunctl: running it once w/o arguments works as 
> > expected, but running it a second time results in failure and a 
> > kmem_cache_sanity_check() failure.  The problem appears to be very repeatable 
> > on my test VM and happens independent of the LSM/SELinux fixup patches.
> > 
> > Have you seen this before?
> > 
> 
> Obviously code in tun_flow_init() is wrong...
> 
> static int tun_flow_init(struct tun_struct *tun)
> {
>         int i;
> 
>         tun->flow_cache = kmem_cache_create("tun_flow_cache",
>                                             sizeof(struct tun_flow_entry), 0, 0,
>                                             NULL);
>         if (!tun->flow_cache)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> ...
> }
> 
> 
> I have no idea why we would need a kmem_cache per tun_struct,
> and why we even need a kmem_cache.

Normally flow malloc/free should be good enough.
It might make sense to use private kmem_cache if doing hlist_nulls.


Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-20 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-20 23:16 TUN problems (regression?) Paul Moore
2012-12-20 23:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-20 23:50   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-12-21  3:32     ` Jason Wang
2012-12-21  3:39       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-21  4:26         ` Jason Wang
2012-12-28  0:41           ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-28  5:43             ` Jason Wang
2012-12-28  6:25               ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-01-04  5:04                 ` Jason Wang
2012-12-21 21:15       ` David Miller
2012-12-21 16:27   ` Paul Moore
2012-12-21 17:17     ` [PATCH] tuntap: dont use a private kmem_cache Eric Dumazet

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