On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 01:31 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 17:49 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > I've added some debugging, and it seems that when it deadlocks, glibc
> > > doesn't get *any* response to its RTM_GETADDR request. I know we'd get
> > > ENOBUFS is a *response* was dropped... but what about when the request
> > > itself is dropped? ... 
> > 
> > Please check that this patch fixes your issue :
> > 
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/473041/
> 
> Looks likely; thanks. I'm running with that patch now. I haven't been
> able to quickly reproduce the problem on demand, but it usually happens
> within a day or two. So it'll be a few days at least before I call it a
> success.

I just saw the same deadlock happen again; glibc's __check_pf() stuck
in recvmsg() waiting for a response that never comes.

This is the Fedora 22 4.0.5 kernel with the above patch applied.


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