Hi Josh, Congratulations on the patch acceptance.
We usually wait for patches to land in Linus's tree first. From there, we can manually do a SRU, or you can hope it gets selected for upstream stable and picked up through that mechanism. Things are a little slow at the moment, due to missing the 2024.09.02 SRU cycle, https://kernel.ubuntu.com/, and we will miss patch acceptance for 2024.09.30, so perhaps we can target the SRU cycle after that, so maybe late November would be the fastest. Are you running your own kernels in production at the moment? Did the patch need any specific backport to get back to 5.15? If its a clean cherry pick we can probably get it into the next available SRU cycle without too much fuss. Thanks, Matthew -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2077657 Title: Kernel Oops - BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, RIP: 0010:tcp_rearm_rto+0xe4/0x160 Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: We've recently started seeing the following crash on a # of machines we have running a ceph cluster. They are all running Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.780353] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.787572] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.792971] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.798362] PGD 0 P4D 0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.801164] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.805091] CPU: 0 PID: 9180 Comm: msgr-worker-1 Tainted: G W 5.4.0-174-generic #193-Ubuntu Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.814996] Hardware name: Supermicro SMC 2x26 os-gen8 64C NVME-Y 256G/H12SSW-NTR, BIOS 2.5.V1.2U.NVMe.UEFI 05/09/2023 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.825952] RIP: 0010:tcp_rearm_rto+0xe4/0x160 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.830656] Code: 87 ca 04 00 00 00 5b 41 5c 41 5d 5d c3 c3 49 8b bc 24 40 06 00 00 eb 8d 48 bb cf f7 53 e3 a5 9b c4 20 4c 89 ef e8 0c fe 0e 00 <48> 8b 78 20 48 c1 ef 03 48 89 f8 41 8b bc 24 80 04 00 00 48 f7 e3 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.849665] RSP: 0018:ffffb75d40003e08 EFLAGS: 00010246 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.855149] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 20c49ba5e353f7cf RCX: 0000000000000000 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.862542] RDX: 0000000062177c30 RSI: 000000000000231c RDI: ffff9874ad283a60 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.869933] RBP: ffffb75d40003e20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff987605e20aa8 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.877318] R10: ffffb75d40003f00 R11: ffffb75d4460f740 R12: ffff9874ad283900 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.884710] R13: ffff9874ad283a60 R14: ffff9874ad283980 R15: ffff9874ad283d30 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.892095] FS: 00007f1ef4a2e700(0000) GS:ffff987605e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.900438] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.906435] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 0000003e450ba003 CR4: 0000000000760ef0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.913822] PKRU: 55555554 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.916786] Call Trace: Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.919488] Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.921765] ? show_regs.cold+0x1a/0x1f Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.925859] ? __die+0x90/0xd9 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.929169] ? no_context+0x196/0x380 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.933088] ? ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x4e0/0x4e0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.938216] ? ip6_sublist_rcv_finish+0x3d/0x50 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.943000] ? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x50/0x1a0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.947873] ? bad_area_nosemaphore+0x16/0x20 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.952486] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x267/0x450 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.957104] ? ipv6_list_rcv+0x112/0x140 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.961279] ? __do_page_fault+0x58/0x90 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.965458] ? do_page_fault+0x2c/0xe0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.969465] ? page_fault+0x34/0x40 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.973217] ? tcp_rearm_rto+0xe4/0x160 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.977313] ? tcp_rearm_rto+0xe4/0x160 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.981408] tcp_send_loss_probe+0x10b/0x220 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.985937] tcp_write_timer_handler+0x1b4/0x240 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.990809] tcp_write_timer+0x9e/0xe0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.994814] ? tcp_write_timer_handler+0x240/0x240 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061395.999866] call_timer_fn+0x32/0x130 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.003782] __run_timers.part.0+0x180/0x280 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.008309] ? recalibrate_cpu_khz+0x10/0x10 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.012841] ? native_x2apic_icr_write+0x30/0x30 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.017718] ? lapic_next_event+0x21/0x30 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.021984] ? clockevents_program_event+0x8f/0xe0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.027035] run_timer_softirq+0x2a/0x50 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.031212] __do_softirq+0xd1/0x2c1 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.035044] do_softirq_own_stack+0x2a/0x40 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.039480] Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.041840] do_softirq.part.0+0x46/0x50 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.046022] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x50/0x60 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.050460] _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1e/0x20 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.054817] nf_conntrack_tcp_packet+0x29e/0xbe0 [nf_conntrack] Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.060994] ? get_l4proto+0xe7/0x190 [nf_conntrack] Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.066220] nf_conntrack_in+0xe9/0x670 [nf_conntrack] Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.071618] ipv6_conntrack_local+0x14/0x20 [nf_conntrack] Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.077356] nf_hook_slow+0x45/0xb0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.081098] ip6_xmit+0x3f0/0x5d0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.084670] ? ipv6_anycast_cleanup+0x50/0x50 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.089282] ? __sk_dst_check+0x38/0x70 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.093381] ? inet6_csk_route_socket+0x13b/0x200 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.098346] inet6_csk_xmit+0xa7/0xf0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.102263] __tcp_transmit_skb+0x550/0xb30 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.106701] tcp_write_xmit+0x3c6/0xc20 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.110792] ? __alloc_skb+0x98/0x1d0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.114708] __tcp_push_pending_frames+0x37/0x100 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.119667] tcp_push+0xfd/0x100 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.123150] tcp_sendmsg_locked+0xc70/0xdd0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.127588] tcp_sendmsg+0x2d/0x50 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.131245] inet6_sendmsg+0x43/0x70 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.135075] __sock_sendmsg+0x48/0x70 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.138994] ____sys_sendmsg+0x212/0x280 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.143172] ___sys_sendmsg+0x88/0xd0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.147098] ? __seccomp_filter+0x7e/0x6b0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.151446] ? __switch_to+0x39c/0x460 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.155453] ? __switch_to_asm+0x42/0x80 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.159636] ? __switch_to_asm+0x5a/0x80 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.163816] __sys_sendmsg+0x5c/0xa0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.167647] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1f/0x30 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.171832] do_syscall_64+0x57/0x190 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.175748] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x5c/0xc1 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.181055] RIP: 0033:0x7f1ef692618d Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.184893] Code: 28 89 54 24 1c 48 89 74 24 10 89 7c 24 08 e8 ca ee ff ff 8b 54 24 1c 48 8b 74 24 10 41 89 c0 8b 7c 24 08 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 2f 44 89 c7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 fe ee ff ff 48 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.203889] RSP: 002b:00007f1ef4a26aa0 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.211708] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000084b RCX: 00007f1ef692618d Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.219091] RDX: 0000000000004000 RSI: 00007f1ef4a26b10 RDI: 0000000000000275 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.226475] RBP: 0000000000004000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000020 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.233859] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 000000000000084b Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.241243] R13: 00007f1ef4a26b10 R14: 0000000000000275 R15: 000055592030f1e8 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.248628] Modules linked in: vrf bridge stp llc vxlan ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel nls_iso8859_1 amd64_edac_mod edac_mce_amd kvm_amd kvm crct10dif_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel crypto_simd cryptd glue_helper wmi_bmof ipmi_ssif input_leds joydev rndis_host cdc_ether usbnet mii ast drm_vram_helper ttm drm_kms_helper i2c_algo_bit fb_sys_fops syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt ccp mac_hid ipmi_si ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler nft_ct sch_fq_codel nf_tables_set nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_tables nfnetlink ramoops reed_solomon efi_pstore drm ip_tables x_tables autofs4 raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xor raid6_pq libcrc32c raid0 multipath linear mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core raid1 mlx5_core hid_generic pci_hyperv_intf crc32_pclmul tls usbhid ahci mlxfw bnxt_en libahci hid nvme i2c_piix4 nvme_core wmi Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.324334] CR2: 0000000000000020 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.327944] ---[ end trace 68a2b679d1cfb4f1 ]--- Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.433435] RIP: 0010:tcp_rearm_rto+0xe4/0x160 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.438137] Code: 87 ca 04 00 00 00 5b 41 5c 41 5d 5d c3 c3 49 8b bc 24 40 06 00 00 eb 8d 48 bb cf f7 53 e3 a5 9b c4 20 4c 89 ef e8 0c fe 0e 00 <48> 8b 78 20 48 c1 ef 03 48 89 f8 41 8b bc 24 80 04 00 00 48 f7 e3 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.457144] RSP: 0018:ffffb75d40003e08 EFLAGS: 00010246 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.462629] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 20c49ba5e353f7cf RCX: 0000000000000000 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.470012] RDX: 0000000062177c30 RSI: 000000000000231c RDI: ffff9874ad283a60 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.477396] RBP: ffffb75d40003e20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff987605e20aa8 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.484779] R10: ffffb75d40003f00 R11: ffffb75d4460f740 R12: ffff9874ad283900 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.492164] R13: ffff9874ad283a60 R14: ffff9874ad283980 R15: ffff9874ad283d30 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.499547] FS: 00007f1ef4a2e700(0000) GS:ffff987605e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.507886] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.513884] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 0000003e450ba003 CR4: 0000000000760ef0 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.521267] PKRU: 55555554 Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.524230] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Jul 26 15:05:02 rx [11061396.530885] Kernel Offset: 0x1b200000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff) Jul 26 15:05:03 rx [11061396.660181] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt ]--- Earlier in the day we also saw the following WARNING get triggered: Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: invalid inflight: 2 state 1 cwnd 68 mss 8988 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: WARNING: CPU: 16 PID: 0 at net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:2605 tcp_send_loss_probe+0x214/0x220 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: Modules linked in: vrf bridge stp llc vxlan ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel nls_iso8859_1 nft_ct amd64_edac_mod edac_mce_amd kvm_amd kvm crct10dif_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel crypto_simd cryptd glue_helper wmi_bmof ipmi_ssif joydev input_leds rndis_host cdc_ether usbnet mii ast drm_vram_helper ttm drm_kms_he> Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: CPU: 16 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/16 Not tainted 5.4.0-174-generic #193-Ubuntu Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: Hardware name: Supermicro SMC 2x26 os-gen8 64C NVME-Y 256G/H12SSW-NTR, BIOS 2.5.V1.2U.NVMe.UEFI 05/09/2023 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: RIP: 0010:tcp_send_loss_probe+0x214/0x220 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: Code: 08 26 01 00 75 e2 41 0f b6 54 24 12 41 8b 8c 24 c0 06 00 00 45 89 f0 48 c7 c7 e0 b4 20 a7 c6 05 8d 08 26 01 01 e8 4a c0 0f 00 <0f> 0b eb ba 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffb7838088ce00 EFLAGS: 00010286 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9b84b5630430 RCX: 0000000000000006 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: 0000000000000096 RDI: ffff9b8e4621c8c0 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: RBP: ffffb7838088ce18 R08: 0000000000000927 R09: 0000000000000004 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff9b84b5630000 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000000000231c R15: ffff9b84b5630430 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9b8e46200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: CR2: 000056238cec2380 CR3: 0000003e49ede005 CR4: 0000000000760ee0 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: PKRU: 55555554 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: Call Trace: Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: <IRQ> Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? show_regs.cold+0x1a/0x1f Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? __warn+0x98/0xe0 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? tcp_send_loss_probe+0x214/0x220 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? report_bug+0xd1/0x100 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? do_error_trap+0x9b/0xc0 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? do_invalid_op+0x3c/0x50 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? tcp_send_loss_probe+0x214/0x220 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? invalid_op+0x1e/0x30 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? tcp_send_loss_probe+0x214/0x220 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: tcp_write_timer_handler+0x1b4/0x240 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: tcp_write_timer+0x9e/0xe0 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? tcp_write_timer_handler+0x240/0x240 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: call_timer_fn+0x32/0x130 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: __run_timers.part.0+0x180/0x280 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? timerqueue_add+0x9b/0xb0 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? enqueue_hrtimer+0x3d/0x90 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? do_error_trap+0x9b/0xc0 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? do_invalid_op+0x3c/0x50 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? tcp_send_loss_probe+0x214/0x220 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? invalid_op+0x1e/0x30 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? tcp_send_loss_probe+0x214/0x220 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: tcp_write_timer_handler+0x1b4/0x240 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: tcp_write_timer+0x9e/0xe0 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? tcp_write_timer_handler+0x240/0x240 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: call_timer_fn+0x32/0x130 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: __run_timers.part.0+0x180/0x280 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? timerqueue_add+0x9b/0xb0 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? enqueue_hrtimer+0x3d/0x90 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? recalibrate_cpu_khz+0x10/0x10 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? ktime_get+0x3e/0xa0 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? native_x2apic_icr_write+0x30/0x30 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: run_timer_softirq+0x2a/0x50 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: __do_softirq+0xd1/0x2c1 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: irq_exit+0xae/0xb0 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7b/0x140 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: </IRQ> Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: RIP: 0010:native_safe_halt+0xe/0x10 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: Code: 7b ff ff ff eb bd 90 90 90 90 90 90 e9 07 00 00 00 0f 00 2d 36 2c 50 00 f4 c3 66 90 e9 07 00 00 00 0f 00 2d 26 2c 50 00 fb f4 <c3> 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 55 41 54 53 e8 dd 5e 61 ff 65 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffb783801cfe70 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff13 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: RAX: ffffffffa6908b20 RBX: 0000000000000010 RCX: 0000000000000001 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: RDX: 000000006fc0c97e RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: 0000000000000082 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: RBP: ffffb783801cfe90 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000225 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: R10: 0000000000100000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000010 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: R13: ffff9b8e390b0000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? __cpuidle_text_start+0x8/0x8 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ? default_idle+0x20/0x140 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: arch_cpu_idle+0x15/0x20 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: default_idle_call+0x23/0x30 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: do_idle+0x1fb/0x270 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: cpu_startup_entry+0x20/0x30 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: start_secondary+0x178/0x1d0 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0 Jul 26 09:15:27 kernel: ---[ end trace e7ac822987e33be1 ]--- The warning suggests there is an inconsistency in the accounting of tp->packets_out where the kernel has a non-zero value for the counter, but there are no packets in the transmit or retrans queues. I grabbed the debug symbols for this kernel and looked up the RIP of where we're seeing the null ptr deref. It points to here: (gdb) list *(tcp_rearm_rto+0xe4) 0xffffffff819a2d64 is in tcp_rearm_rto (/build/linux-G34Rii/linux-5.4.0/include/linux/math64.h:126). warning: Source file is more recent than executable. 121 */ 122 #ifndef div_u64 123 static inline u64 div_u64(u64 dividend, u32 divisor) 124 { 125 u32 remainder; 126 return div_u64_rem(dividend, divisor, &remainder); 127 } 128 #endif 129 130 /** Digging into the objdump we can see 0xffffffff819a2d64 here: ffffffff819a2d5c: 4c 89 ef mov %r13,%rdi ffffffff819a2d5f: e8 0c fe 0e 00 callq ffffffff81a92b70 <rb_first> >>> ffffffff819a2d64: 48 8b 78 20 mov 0x20(%rax),%rdi ffffffff819a2d68: 48 c1 ef 03 shr $0x3,%rdi ffffffff819a2d6c: 48 89 f8 mov %rdi,%rax u64 rto_time_stamp_us = tcp_skb_timestamp_us(skb) + jiffies_to_usecs(rto); ffffffff819a2d6f: 41 8b bc 24 80 04 00 mov 0x480(%r12),%edi ffffffff819a2d76: 00 ffffffff819a2d77: 48 f7 e3 mul %rbx ffffffff819a2d7a: 48 89 d3 mov %rdx,%rbx ffffffff819a2d7d: e8 9e 3a 78 ff callq ffffffff81126820 <jiffies_to_usecs> which is part of this code: /* At how many usecs into the future should the RTO fire? */ static inline s64 tcp_rto_delta_us(const struct sock *sk) { const struct sk_buff *skb = tcp_rtx_queue_head(sk); u32 rto = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto; >>> u64 rto_time_stamp_us = tcp_skb_timestamp_us(skb) + jiffies_to_usecs(rto); and eventually we see that tcp_skb_timestamp_us() looks like this: /* provide the departure time in us unit */ static inline u64 tcp_skb_timestamp_us(const struct sk_buff *skb) { return div_u64(skb->skb_mstamp_ns, NSEC_PER_USEC); } This points us back to the null ptr deref coming in the call to div_u64() as the original gdb disassembly showed. The failing insn is "mov 0x20(%rax),%rdi" and skb_mstamp_ns is at offset 0x20 of struct sk_buff: $ pahole sk_buff /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-5.4.0-174-generic struct sk_buff { union { struct { struct sk_buff * next; /* 0 8 */ struct sk_buff * prev; /* 8 8 */ union { struct net_device * dev; /* 16 8 */ long unsigned int dev_scratch; /* 16 8 */ }; /* 16 8 */ }; /* 0 24 */ struct rb_node rbnode; /* 0 24 */ struct list_head list; /* 0 16 */ }; /* 0 24 */ union { struct sock * sk; /* 24 8 */ int ip_defrag_offset; /* 24 4 */ }; /* 24 8 */ union { ktime_t tstamp; /* 32 8 */ u64 skb_mstamp_ns; /* 32 8 */ With this we now know that the skb was NULL which triggered the crash. This appears to b/c this call gave us a NULL skb: const struct sk_buff *skb = tcp_rtx_queue_head(sk); meaning the retransmit queue was empty. The same issue was hit a # of years ago as reported here: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/86c0f836-9a7c-438b-d81a-839be45f1...@gmail.com/T/#t with the following commit intended to fix it: commit bffd168c3fc5cc7d2bad4c668fa90e7a9010db4b Author: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soh...@google.com> Date: Sat Apr 14 20:44:46 2018 -0400 tcp: clear tp->packets_out when purging write queue however that commit is in the kernel version which saw this crash. $ git describe --contains bffd168c3fc5cc7d2bad4c668fa90e7a9010db4b v5.0~2050^2~28 We've been able to work around the problem by setting tcp_early_retrans and tcp_recovery to 0 that way we won't hit the REO_TIMEOUT and LOSS_PROBE states and so will not call tcp_rto_delta_us(): if (!tp->packets_out) { inet_csk_clear_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS); } else { u32 rto = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto; /* Offset the time elapsed after installing regular RTO */ if (icsk->icsk_pending == ICSK_TIME_REO_TIMEOUT || icsk->icsk_pending == ICSK_TIME_LOSS_PROBE) { s64 delta_us = tcp_rto_delta_us(sk); As mentioned earlier there seems to be a problem with the packets_out accounting here still which causes the kernel to think there are either still packets in the write or retransmit queues. Additionally I feel like we should probably add a patch in tcp_rto_delta_us() to check that the skb is non-null b/f trying to read the timestamp. Possibly something like this: Author: Josh Hunt <joh...@akamai.com> Date: Tue Jul 30 19:45:43 2024 -0400 workaround empty rtx queue diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h index 2aac11e7e1cc..d1e2ecbce536 100644 --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -2434,7 +2434,8 @@ static inline s64 tcp_rto_delta_us(const struct sock *sk) { const struct sk_buff *skb = tcp_rtx_queue_head(sk); u32 rto = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto; - u64 rto_time_stamp_us = tcp_skb_timestamp_us(skb) + jiffies_to_usecs(rto); + u64 rto_time_stamp_us = skb ? tcp_skb_timestamp_us(skb) : 0 + jiffies_to_usecs(rto); + WARN_ON_ONCE(!skb); return rto_time_stamp_us - tcp_sk(sk)->tcp_mstamp; } I tried looking to see if there are any new commits upstream either in Ubuntu's 5.4 kernels or upstream's net-next branch which could resolve this problem, but did not find anything. We've also tried reproducing this in a lab environment without success so far. 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