Thanks @mruffell. No, we're not running a custom kernel. We've just disabled the 2 sysctsl I mentioned, tcp_early_retrans and tcp_recovery, for now to mitigate the issue. I just checked and it looks like my change applies cleanly to the HEAD of focal. I think we'd like to see it applied to both 5.4 and 5.15. Please let me know if there is a problem applying it to either when you get to it.
-- 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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