On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Dave Jones <da...@codemonkey.org.uk> wrote: > The new refcount debugging code spews this twice during boot on my router.. > > > refcount_t: increment on 0; use-after-free. > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 17 at lib/refcount.c:152 refcount_inc+0x2b/0x30 > CPU: 1 PID: 17 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 4.12.0-firewall+ #8 > task: ffff8801d4441ac0 task.stack: ffff8801d4450000 > RIP: 0010:refcount_inc+0x2b/0x30 > RSP: 0018:ffff8801d4456da8 EFLAGS: 00010046 > RAX: 000000000000002c RBX: ffff8801d4c3cf40 RCX: 0000000000000000 > RDX: 000000000000002c RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffffed003a88adab > RBP: ffff8801d4456da8 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: fffffbfff4afcb57 > R10: 0000000000000000 R11: fffffbfff4afcb58 R12: ffff8801d4c3c540 > R13: 0000000000000082 R14: ffff8801ce9c7ff8 R15: ffff8801ce9c8aa0 > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8801d6a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > CR2: 00007fa2b803156e CR3: 00000001c405d000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 > Call Trace: > zap_completion_queue+0xad/0x1a0
Sigh... it is on purpose: commit 8a455b087c9629b3ae3b521b4f1ed16672f978cc Author: Jarek Poplawski <jark...@gmail.com> Date: Thu Mar 20 16:07:27 2008 -0700 netpoll: zap_completion_queue: adjust skb->users counter zap_completion_queue() retrieves skbs from completion_queue where they have zero skb->users counter. Before dev_kfree_skb_any() it should be non-zero yet, so it's increased now. Reported-and-tested-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jark...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> We need to review it now. :-/