net: tracepoint of net_dev_xmit sees freed skb and causes panic
authorKoki Sanagi <sanagi.koki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Mon, 30 May 2011 21:48:34 +0000 (21:48 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 2 Jun 2011 21:06:31 +0000 (14:06 -0700)
Because there is a possibility that skb is kfree_skb()ed and zero cleared
after ndo_start_xmit, we should not see the contents of skb like skb->len and
skb->dev->name after ndo_start_xmit. But trace_net_dev_xmit does that
and causes panic by NULL pointer dereference.
This patch fixes trace_net_dev_xmit not to see the contents of skb directly.

If you want to reproduce this panic,

1. Get tracepoint of net_dev_xmit on
2. Create 2 guests on KVM
2. Make 2 guests use virtio_net
4. Execute netperf from one to another for a long time as a network burden
5. host will panic(It takes about 30 minutes)

Signed-off-by: Koki Sanagi <sanagi.koki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/trace/events/net.h
net/core/dev.c

index 5f247f5ffc565c50e49f70eb84f52b101d3c03f0..f99645d05a8f201eea78a399468e51b3876d2019 100644 (file)
 TRACE_EVENT(net_dev_xmit,
 
        TP_PROTO(struct sk_buff *skb,
-                int rc),
+                int rc,
+                struct net_device *dev,
+                unsigned int skb_len),
 
-       TP_ARGS(skb, rc),
+       TP_ARGS(skb, rc, dev, skb_len),
 
        TP_STRUCT__entry(
                __field(        void *,         skbaddr         )
                __field(        unsigned int,   len             )
                __field(        int,            rc              )
-               __string(       name,           skb->dev->name  )
+               __string(       name,           dev->name       )
        ),
 
        TP_fast_assign(
                __entry->skbaddr = skb;
-               __entry->len = skb->len;
+               __entry->len = skb_len;
                __entry->rc = rc;
-               __assign_str(name, skb->dev->name);
+               __assign_str(name, dev->name);
        ),
 
        TP_printk("dev=%s skbaddr=%p len=%u rc=%d",
index c7e305d13b71b9371aa8973354c2b4cbe09889f6..939307891e71ed36fcc888ea3194f57b7026c6cc 100644 (file)
@@ -2096,6 +2096,7 @@ int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 {
        const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
        int rc = NETDEV_TX_OK;
+       unsigned int skb_len;
 
        if (likely(!skb->next)) {
                u32 features;
@@ -2146,8 +2147,9 @@ int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
                        }
                }
 
+               skb_len = skb->len;
                rc = ops->ndo_start_xmit(skb, dev);
-               trace_net_dev_xmit(skb, rc);
+               trace_net_dev_xmit(skb, rc, dev, skb_len);
                if (rc == NETDEV_TX_OK)
                        txq_trans_update(txq);
                return rc;
@@ -2167,8 +2169,9 @@ gso:
                if (dev->priv_flags & IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE)
                        skb_dst_drop(nskb);
 
+               skb_len = nskb->len;
                rc = ops->ndo_start_xmit(nskb, dev);
-               trace_net_dev_xmit(nskb, rc);
+               trace_net_dev_xmit(nskb, rc, dev, skb_len);
                if (unlikely(rc != NETDEV_TX_OK)) {
                        if (rc & ~NETDEV_TX_MASK)
                                goto out_kfree_gso_skb;