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Date:      Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:12:36 +0800
From:      dave jones <s.dave.jones@gmail.com>
To:        Mikolaj Golub <trociny@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Kernel panic on FreeBSD 9.0-beta2
Message-ID:  <CANf5e8YtQ5P2euF7E-D6Wt7U38UuLc8KVU-NCehq74XV_WTvBg@mail.gmail.com>
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2011/10/4 Mikolaj Golub :
>
> On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 14:15:45 +0800 dave jones wrote:
>
> =A0dj> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Robert Watson wrote:
> =A0>>
> =A0>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Mikolaj Golub wrote:
> =A0>>
> =A0>>> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:12:55 +0200 K. Macy wrote:
> =A0>>>
> =A0>>> KM> Sorry, didn't look at the images (limited bw), I've seen somet=
hing KM>
> =A0>>> like this before in timewait. This "can't happen" with UDP so will=
 be KM>
> =A0>>> interested in learning more about the bug.
> =A0>>>
> =A0>>> The panic can be easily triggered by this:
> =A0>>
> =A0>> Hi:
> =A0>>
> =A0>> Just catching up on this thread. =A0I think the analysis here is ge=
nerally
> =A0>> right: in 9.0, you're much more likely to see an inpcb with its in_=
socket
> =A0>> pointer cleared in the hash list than in prior releases, and
> =A0>> in_pcbbind_setup() trips over this.
> =A0>>
> =A0>> However, at least on first glance (and from the perspective of inva=
riants
> =A0>> here), I think the bug is actualy that in_pcbbind_setup() is asking
> =A0>> in_pcblookup_local() for an inpcb and then access the returned inpc=
b's
> =A0>> in_socket pointer without acquiring a lock on the inpcb. =A0Structu=
rally, it
> =A0>> can't acquire this lock for lock order reasons -- it already holds =
the lock
> =A0>> on its own inpcb. =A0Therefore, we should only access fields that a=
re safe to
> =A0>> follow in an inpcb when you hold a reference via the hash lock and =
not a
> =A0>> lock on the inpcb itself, which appears generally OK (+/-) for all =
the
> =A0>> fields in that clause but the t->inp_socket->so_options dereference=
.
> =A0>>
> =A0>> A preferred fix would cache the SO_REUSEPORT flag in an inpcb-layer=
 field,
> =A0>> such as inp_flags2, giving us access to its value without having to=
 walk
> =A0>> into the attached (or not) socket.
> =A0>>
> =A0>> This raises another structural question, which is whether we need a=
 new
> =A0>> inp_foo flags field that is protected explicitly by the hash lock, =
and not
> =A0>> by the inpcb lock, which could hold fields relevant to address bind=
ing. =A0I
> =A0>> don't think we need to solve that problem in this context, as a sli=
ghtly
> =A0>> race on SO_REUSEPORT is likely acceptable.
> =A0>>
> =A0>> The suggested fix does perform the desired function of explicitly d=
etaching
> =A0>> the inpcb from the hash list before the socket is disconnected from=
 the
> =A0>> inpcb. However, it's incomplete in that the invariant that's being =
broken is
> =A0>> also relied on for other protocols (such as raw sockets). =A0The co=
rrect
> =A0>> invariant is that inp_socket is safe to follow unconditionally if a=
n inpcb
> =A0>> is locked and INP_DROPPED isn't set -- the bug is in "locked" not i=
n
> =A0>> "INP_DROPPED", which is why I think this is the wrong fix, even tho=
ugh it
> =A0>> prevents a panic :-).
>
> =A0dj> Hello Robert,
>
> =A0dj> Thank you for taking your valuable time to find out the problem.
> =A0dj> Since I don't have idea about network internals, would you have a =
patch
> =A0dj> about this? I'd be glad to test it, thanks again.
>
> Here is the patch that implements what Robert suggests.
>
> Dave, could you test it?

Sure. Thanks for cooking the patch.
Machines have been running two days now without panic.

> --
> Mikolaj Golub

Best regards,
Dave.



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