From: Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> This keeps us from crashing in certain test cases where we bring up many (1000, for instance) mac-vlans with IPv6 enabled in the kernel. This bug has been around for a very long time.
Until a real fix is found (and for stable), maybe it is better to return an incomplete fib walk instead of crashing. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 8 IP: fib6_walk_continue+0x5b/0x140 [ipv6] PGD 80000007dfc0c067 P4D 80000007dfc0c067 PUD 7e66ff067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI Modules linked in: nf_conntrack_netlink nf_conntrack nfnetlink nf_defrag_ipv4 libcrc32c vrf] CPU: 3 PID: 15117 Comm: ip Tainted: G O 4.16.0+ #5 Hardware name: Iron_Systems,Inc CS-CAD-2U-A02/X10SRL-F, BIOS 2.0b 05/02/2017 RIP: 0010:fib6_walk_continue+0x5b/0x140 [ipv6] RSP: 0018:ffffc90008c3bc10 EFLAGS: 00010287 RAX: ffff88085ac45050 RBX: ffff8807e03008a0 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffc90008c3bc48 RDI: ffffffff8232b240 RBP: ffff880819167600 R08: 0000000000000008 R09: ffff8807dff10071 R10: ffffc90008c3bbd0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8807e03008a0 R13: 0000000000000002 R14: ffff8807e05744c8 R15: ffff8807e08ef000 FS: 00007f2f04342700(0000) GS:ffff88087fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 00000007e0556002 CR4: 00000000003606e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: inet6_dump_fib+0x14b/0x2c0 [ipv6] netlink_dump+0x216/0x2a0 netlink_recvmsg+0x254/0x400 ? copy_msghdr_from_user+0xb5/0x110 ___sys_recvmsg+0xe9/0x230 ? find_held_lock+0x3b/0xb0 ? __handle_mm_fault+0x617/0x1180 ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xb3/0x110 ? __sys_recvmsg+0x39/0x70 __sys_recvmsg+0x39/0x70 do_syscall_64+0x63/0x120 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2 RIP: 0033:0x7f2f03a72030 RSP: 002b:00007fffab3de508 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002f RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fffab3e641c RCX: 00007f2f03a72030 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007fffab3de570 RDI: 0000000000000004 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000007e6c R09: 00007fffab3e63a8 R10: 00007fffab3de5b0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fffab3e6608 R13: 000000000066b460 R14: 0000000000007e6c R15: 0000000000000000 Code: 85 d2 74 17 f6 40 2a 04 74 11 8b 53 2c 85 d2 0f 84 d7 00 00 00 83 ea 01 89 53 2c c7 4 RIP: fib6_walk_continue+0x5b/0x140 [ipv6] RSP: ffffc90008c3bc10 CR2: 0000000000000008 ---[ end trace bd03458864eb266c ]--- Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> --- * This patch is against 4.16+, but a similar patch fixes the same issue older kernels. Perhaps newer kernels will be resolved by David Ahern's fib6 changes, but I guess those won't be backported, so maybe this patch is still useful either way. net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c index 92b8d8c..afef362 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c @@ -1855,6 +1855,12 @@ static int fib6_walk_continue(struct fib6_walker *w) if (fn == w->root) return 0; pn = rcu_dereference_protected(fn->parent, 1); + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!pn)) { + pr_err("FWS-U, w: %p fn: %p pn: %p\n", + w, fn, pn); + /* Attempt to work around crash that has been here forever. --Ben */ + return 0; + } left = rcu_dereference_protected(pn->left, 1); right = rcu_dereference_protected(pn->right, 1); w->node = pn; -- 2.4.11