On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 09:39:28AM +0100, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> On 9 December 2015 at 13:12, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If we attach the sk to the skb, netlink_skb_destructor() will underflow
> > the socket receive memory counter and we get warning splat when
> > releasing the socket.
> >
> > $ cat /proc/net/netlink
> > sk Eth Pid Groups Rmem Wmem Dump Locks Drops Inode
> > ffff8800ca903000 12 0 00000000 -54144 0 0 2 0 17942
> > ^^^^^^
> >
> > Rmem above shows an underflow.
> >
> > And here below the warning splat:
> >
> > [ 1363.815976] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1356 at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:958 netlink_sock_destruct+0x80/0xb9()
> > [...]
> > [ 1363.816152] CPU: 2 PID: 1356 Comm: kworker/u16:1 Tainted: G W 4.4.0-rc1+ #153
> > [ 1363.816155] Hardware name: LENOVO 23259H1/23259H1, BIOS G2ET32WW (1.12 ) 05/30/2012
> > [ 1363.816160] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
> > [ 1363.816163] 0000000000000000 ffff880119203dd0 ffffffff81240204 0000000000000000
> > [ 1363.816169] ffff880119203e08 ffffffff8104db4b ffffffff813d49a1 ffff8800ca771000
> > [ 1363.816174] ffffffff81a42b00 0000000000000000 ffff8800c0afe1e0 ffff880119203e18
> > [ 1363.816179] Call Trace:
> > [ 1363.816181] <IRQ> [<ffffffff81240204>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x79
> > [ 1363.816193] [<ffffffff8104db4b>] warn_slowpath_common+0x9a/0xb3
> > [ 1363.816197] [<ffffffff813d49a1>] ? netlink_sock_destruct+0x80/0xb9
> >
> > skb->sk was only needed to lookup for the netns, however we don't need
> > this anymore since ("netfilter: nfnetlink: avoid recurrent netns lookups
> > in call_batch"), so this patch removes this manual socket assignment.
> >
> > Reported-by: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > I would really appreciate to get a Tested-by: tag from you on this.
> >
> > net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c | 2 --
> > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> thanks, the problem seems to be fixed now.
>
> Tested-by: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for testing Arturo!
It would be good to give a another testing given this is related to
netns as well: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/554791/. What I could
test here showed no problems.
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