On Thursday, February 11, 2016 22:15:57 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
From: Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch
batman-adv checks in different situation if a new device is already on top of a different batman-adv device. This is done by getting the iflink of a device and all its parent. It assumes that this iflink is always a parent device in an acyclic graph. But this assumption is broken by devices like veth which are actually a pair of two devices linked to each other. The recursive check would therefore get veth0 when calling dev_get_iflink on veth1. And it gets veth0 when calling dev_get_iflink with veth1.
Creating a veth pair and loading batman-adv freezes parts of the system
ip link add veth0 type veth peer name veth1 modprobe batman-advAn RCU stall will be detected on the system which cannot be fixed.
INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU 1: (5264 ticks this GP) idle=3e9/140000000000001/0 softirq=144683/144686 fqs=5249 (t=5250 jiffies g=46 c=45 q=43) Task dump for CPU 1: insmod R running task 0 247 245 0x00000008 ffffffff8151f140 ffffffff8107888e ffff88000fd141c0 ffffffff8151f140 0000000000000000 ffffffff81552df0 ffffffff8107b420 0000000000000001 ffff88000e3fa700 ffffffff81540b00 ffffffff8107d667 0000000000000001 Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff8107888e>] ? rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x7e/0xd0 [<ffffffff8107b420>] ? rcu_check_callbacks+0x3f0/0x6b0 [<ffffffff8107d667>] ? hrtimer_run_queues+0x47/0x180 [<ffffffff8107cf9d>] ? update_process_times+0x2d/0x50 [<ffffffff810873fb>] ? tick_handle_periodic+0x1b/0x60 [<ffffffff810290ae>] ? smp_trace_apic_timer_interrupt+0x5e/0x90 [<ffffffff813bbae2>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x82/0x90 <EOI> [<ffffffff812c3fd7>] ? __dev_get_by_index+0x37/0x40 [<ffffffffa0031f3e>] ? batadv_hard_if_event+0xee/0x3a0 [batman_adv] [<ffffffff812c5801>] ? register_netdevice_notifier+0x81/0x1a0 [...]This can be avoided by checking if two devices are each others parent and stopping the check in this situation.
Fixes: 3d48811b27f5 ("batman-adv: prevent using any virtual device created on batman-adv as hard-interface") Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch [sven@narfation.org: rewritten description, extracted fix] Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org
v2:
- fix kernel-doc warning
net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
Applied in revision 2808f92.
Thanks, Marek