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From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink•fr>
To: Matt Bennett <Matt.Bennett@alliedtelesis•co.nz>
Cc: "nuclearcat@nuclearcat•com" <nuclearcat@nuclearcat•com>,
	"core@irc•lg.ua" <core@irc•lg.ua>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"davem@davemloft•net" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	"paulus@samba•org" <paulus@samba•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ppp: don't override sk->sk_state in pppoe_flush_dev()
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:24:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151005122459.GG2911@alphalink.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1444018131.14634.6.camel@mattb-dl>

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 04:08:51AM +0000, Matt Bennett wrote:
> Hi, I am seeing this panic occur occasionally however I am unsure how to
> go about reproducing it. Is it enough to simply keep creating and
> tearing down the PPP interface? I can also test and/or investigate this
> issue if a suitable reproduction method is available.
> 
There are at least two issues resulting in similar Oops.

The first one goes with MTU/address/link state updates on the
underlying interface: any such update on an interface used by a
PPPoE connection will generally result in an Oops when releasing the
PPPoE connection. This is fixed by e6740165b8f7 ("ppp: don't override
sk->sk_state in pppoe_flush_dev()").

The second one seems to be trickier. It looks like a race wrt. PADT
message reception. Reproducing the bug will probably require to
generate some PADT flooding to a host that creates and releases PPPoE
connections.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-05 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-30  9:45 [PATCH net] ppp: don't override sk->sk_state in pppoe_flush_dev() Guillaume Nault
2015-10-02  8:01 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2015-10-02 17:54   ` Guillaume Nault
2015-10-04 16:08     ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2015-10-05  4:08       ` Matt Bennett
2015-10-05 12:24         ` Guillaume Nault [this message]
2015-10-06  0:26           ` Matt Bennett
2015-10-06  4:46             ` Matt Bennett
2015-10-06  9:46               ` Guillaume Nault
2015-10-06 21:12                 ` Matt Bennett
2015-10-07 10:32                   ` Guillaume Nault
2015-10-06  8:50             ` Guillaume Nault
2015-10-05 12:08       ` Guillaume Nault
2015-10-07 12:12         ` Guillaume Nault
2015-10-13  2:13           ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2015-10-13  7:24             ` Guillaume Nault
2015-10-22  0:14             ` Matt Bennett
2015-10-22  0:53               ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2015-10-22 14:49                 ` Guillaume Nault
2015-10-05 10:05 ` David Miller

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