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From: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix•com>
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PPPOL2TP]: Fix SMP oops in pppol2tp driver
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:14:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C402A2.8040401@katalix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080225215837.GA3281@ami.dom.local>

Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> Jarek Poplawski wrote, On 02/25/2008 02:39 PM:
> ...
>> Hmm... Wait a minute! But on the other hand David has written about
>> his cons here, and it looks reasonable: this place would be fixed,
>> but some others can start reports like this. Maybe, it's better to
>> analyze yet if it's really so hard to eliminate taking this lock
>> on the xmit path?
> 
> James, I wonder if you could try to test this patch below?
> ip_queue_xmit() seems to do proper things with __sk_dst_check(), and
> if some other functions don't behave similarly lockdep should tell.
> I think, you could test it with your "locks to _bh" patch (without
> pppol2tp_xmit() part), and maybe with my sock.c lockdep patch (it
> should help lockdep to see these locks a bit more distinctly).

I found the same thing and was running a variant of your patch last 
night; rather than set skb->dst to NULL though, I use __sk_dst_get() and 
let ip_queue_xmit() do the route lookup if it returns NULL. But this has 
the same symptoms as the code I tried a few days ago - no lockdep errors 
but a system lockup after up to several hours. Nothing is logged in the 
syslog.

Luckily, I'm in the lab where my two borrowed servers are today so I 
have access to their consoles. Hopefully I'll be able to find out why 
there are hanging. Btw, they don't hang if I disable irqs around the 
ppp_input() call.

Will update you later.

/james

> PS: Since ppp_generic isn't endangered for now I removed Paul from CC.
> 
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c b/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c
> index e0b072d..b94659a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c
> @@ -1058,7 +1058,7 @@ static int pppol2tp_xmit(struct ppp_channel *chan, struct sk_buff *skb)
>  
>  	/* Get routing info from the tunnel socket */
>  	dst_release(skb->dst);
> -	skb->dst = sk_dst_get(sk_tun);
> +	skb->dst = NULL;
>  	skb_orphan(skb);
>  	skb->sk = sk_tun;
>  
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-26 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-11  9:22 [PATCH][PPPOL2TP]: Fix SMP oops in pppol2tp driver James Chapman
2008-02-11 18:57 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-11 22:19   ` James Chapman
2008-02-11 22:49     ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-11 22:55       ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-11 23:42         ` James Chapman
2008-02-12 10:42           ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-11 23:41       ` James Chapman
2008-02-12  5:30         ` David Miller
2008-02-12 10:58           ` James Chapman
2008-02-12 13:24             ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-13  6:00             ` David Miller
2008-02-13  7:29               ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-14 13:00             ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-18 22:09               ` James Chapman
2008-02-18 23:01                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-19  9:09                   ` James Chapman
2008-02-19  4:29                 ` David Miller
2008-02-19  9:03                   ` James Chapman
2008-02-19 10:30                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-19 10:36                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-19 14:37                       ` James Chapman
2008-02-19 23:06                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-19 23:28                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-20 16:02                   ` James Chapman
2008-02-20 18:38                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-20 22:37                       ` James Chapman
2008-02-21  8:59                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-21  9:53                           ` James Chapman
2008-02-21 12:08                             ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-21 17:09                               ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-25 12:19                                 ` James Chapman
2008-02-25 13:05                                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-25 13:39                                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-25 14:02                                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-25 21:58                                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-26 12:14                                         ` James Chapman [this message]
2008-02-26 13:03                                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-26 13:18                                             ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-26 20:00                                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-02 20:29                                             ` James Chapman
2008-03-03  8:22                                               ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-03  9:35                                                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-27 10:54                                           ` [PATCH][PPPOL2TP] add missing sock_put() in pppol2tp_recv_dequeue() Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-02 20:31                                             ` James Chapman
2008-03-04  4:49                                               ` David Miller
2008-02-27 11:48                                           ` [PATCH][PPPOL2TP] add missing sock_put() in pppol2tp_tunnel_closeall() Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-02 20:32                                             ` James Chapman
2008-03-04  4:49                                               ` David Miller
2008-02-22 14:16                             ` [PATCH][NET] sock.c: sk_dst_lock lockdep keys and names per af_family Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-12  7:19         ` [PATCH][PPPOL2TP]: Fix SMP oops in pppol2tp driver Jarek Poplawski

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