Enabling CONFIG_RCU_NOREF_DEBUG gives the following splat when processing tcp packets:
to-be-untracked noref entity ffff942cb71ea300 not found in cache ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 24 PID: 178 at kernel/rcu/noref_debug.c:54 rcu_track_noref+0xa4/0xf0 Modules linked in: intel_rapl sb_edac x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm irqbypass crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel pcbc aesni_intel crypto_simd glue_helper cryptd iTCO_wdt ipmi_ssif mei_me iTCO_vendor_support mei dcdbas lpc_ich ipmi_si mxm_wmi sg pcspkr ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler acpi_power_meter shpchp wmi nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sd_mod mgag200 drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops ttm igb drm ixgbe mdio crc32c_intel ahci ptp i2c_algo_bit libahci pps_core i2c_core libata dca dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod CPU: 24 PID: 178 Comm: ksoftirqd/24 Not tainted 4.14.0-rc1.noref_route+ #1610 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/072T6D, BIOS 2.4.3 01/17/2017 task: ffff940e48300000 task.stack: ffffaec406a20000 RIP: 0010:rcu_track_noref+0xa4/0xf0 RSP: 0018:ffffaec406a238e0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000040 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000002 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000292 RBP: ffffaec406a238e0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff942cb5110000 R14: 000000000000fe88 R15: ffff942cb1a20200 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff942cbee00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007febc072d140 CR3: 0000001feebd6002 CR4: 00000000003606e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: tcp_data_queue+0x82a/0xce0 tcp_rcv_established+0x283/0x570 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x102/0x1e0 tcp_v4_rcv+0xa9e/0xc10 ip_local_deliver_finish+0x128/0x380 ? ip_local_deliver_finish+0x41/0x380 ip_local_deliver+0x74/0x230 ip_rcv_finish+0x105/0x5e0 ip_rcv+0x2a7/0x540 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x3b9/0xe10 ? netif_receive_skb_internal+0x40/0x390 __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60 netif_receive_skb_internal+0x8d/0x390 ? netif_receive_skb_internal+0x40/0x390 napi_gro_complete+0x127/0x1d0 ? napi_gro_complete+0x2a/0x1d0 napi_gro_flush+0x5f/0x80 napi_complete_done+0x96/0x100 ixgbe_poll+0x5f8/0x7c0 [ixgbe] net_rx_action+0x27d/0x520 __do_softirq+0xd1/0x4f5 run_ksoftirqd+0x25/0x70 smpboot_thread_fn+0x11a/0x1f0 kthread+0x155/0x190 ? sort_range+0x30/0x30 ? kthread_create_on_node+0x70/0x70 ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40 Code: e9 83 c2 01 48 83 c0 18 83 fa 07 75 ef 80 3d b0 e5 ff 00 00 75 d2 48 c7 c7 50 54 07 9d 31 c0 c6 05 9e e5 ff 00 01 e8 ef af fe ff <0f> ff 5d c3 80 3d 8f e5 ff 00 00 75 b0 48 c7 c7 00 54 07 9d 31 we must clear the skb dst before enqueuing the skb somewhere, but currently the dst entry for packets delivered via tcp_rcv_established() -> tcp_queue_rcv() is not cleared. Fix it by adding the explicit drop in tcp_queue_rcv() and moving the current skb_dst_drop() just before the other enqueuing operation, do avoid unneeded double skb_dst_drop() for some path. The leak itself is not harmful, because the tcp recvmsg() code should not access such info. Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pab...@redhat.com> --- net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c index c5d7656beeee..bf4e17edfe7a 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c @@ -4422,6 +4422,9 @@ static void tcp_data_queue_ofo(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) return; } + /* drop the -possibly noref - dst before delivery the skb to ofo tree */ + skb_dst_drop(skb); + /* Stash tstamp to avoid being stomped on by rbnode */ if (TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->has_rxtstamp) TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->swtstamp = skb->tstamp; @@ -4560,6 +4563,7 @@ static int __must_check tcp_queue_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int skb, fragstolen)) ? 1 : 0; tcp_rcv_nxt_update(tcp_sk(sk), TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq); if (!eaten) { + skb_dst_drop(skb); __skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb); skb_set_owner_r(skb, sk); } @@ -4626,7 +4630,6 @@ static void tcp_data_queue(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) __kfree_skb(skb); return; } - skb_dst_drop(skb); __skb_pull(skb, tcp_hdr(skb)->doff * 4); tcp_ecn_accept_cwr(tp, skb); -- 2.13.6