On 06/05/2013 11:58 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
While stress testing sctp sockets, I hit the following panic: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020 IP: [<ffffffffa0490c4e>] sctp_endpoint_free+0xe/0x40 [sctp] PGD 7cead067 PUD 7ce76067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: sctp(F) libcrc32c(F) [...] CPU: 7 PID: 2950 Comm: acc Tainted: GF 3.10.0-rc2+ #1 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge T410/0H19HD, BIOS 1.6.3 02/01/2011 task: ffff88007ce0e0c0 ti: ffff88007b568000 task.ti: ffff88007b568000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0490c4e>] [<ffffffffa0490c4e>] sctp_endpoint_free+0xe/0x40 [sctp] RSP: 0018:ffff88007b569e08 EFLAGS: 00010292 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88007db78a00 RCX: dead000000200200 RDX: ffffffffa049fdb0 RSI: ffff8800379baf38 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff88007b569e18 R08: ffff88007c230da0 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff880077990d00 R14: 0000000000000084 R15: ffff88007db78a00 FS: 00007fc18ab61700(0000) GS:ffff88007fc60000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 000000007cf9d000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Stack: ffff88007b569e38 ffff88007db78a00 ffff88007b569e38 ffffffffa049fded ffffffff81abf0c0 ffff88007db78a00 ffff88007b569e58 ffffffff8145b60e 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007b569eb8 ffffffff814df36e Call Trace: [<ffffffffa049fded>] sctp_destroy_sock+0x3d/0x80 [sctp] [<ffffffff8145b60e>] sk_common_release+0x1e/0xf0 [<ffffffff814df36e>] inet_create+0x2ae/0x350 [<ffffffff81455a6f>] __sock_create+0x11f/0x240 [<ffffffff81455bf0>] sock_create+0x30/0x40 [<ffffffff8145696c>] SyS_socket+0x4c/0xc0 [<ffffffff815403be>] ? do_page_fault+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff8153cb32>] ? page_fault+0x22/0x30 [<ffffffff81544e02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: 0c c9 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 e8 fb fe ff ff c9 c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53 48 83 ec 08 66 66 66 66 90 <48> 8b 47 20 48 89 fb c6 47 1c 01 c6 40 12 07 e8 9e 68 01 00 48 RIP [<ffffffffa0490c4e>] sctp_endpoint_free+0xe/0x40 [sctp] RSP <ffff88007b569e08> CR2: 0000000000000020 ---[ end trace e0d71ec1108c1dd9 ]---
Please hold on with this one. It seemed, that the two tests with this patch applied did not trigger this BUG ``by accident''. I'm still seeing it, digging further on the cause and will send a v2 when eventually identified. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html