First, vehement apologies for sending an RFC patch against such an old kernel. This is (potentially) a bug fix for a crash that we've been seeing in 3.2 and 3.10, and, AFAICT, the underlying issue has not been addressed.
We have an application that invokes tc to delete the root every time the config changes. As a result we stress the cleanup code and were seeing the following panic: crash> bt PID: 630839 TASK: ffff8823c990d280 CPU: 14 COMMAND: "tc" [... snip ...] #8 [ffff8820ceec17a0] page_fault at ffffffff8160a8c2 [exception RIP: htb_qlen_notify+24] RIP: ffffffffa0841718 RSP: ffff8820ceec1858 RFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88241747b400 RDX: ffff88241747b408 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8811fb27d000 RBP: ffff8820ceec1868 R8: ffff88120cdeff24 R9: ffff88120cdeff30 R10: 0000000000000bd4 R11: ffffffffa0840919 R12: ffffffffa0843340 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff8808dae5c2e8 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 #9 [...] qdisc_tree_decrease_qlen at ffffffff81565375 #10 [...] fq_codel_dequeue at ffffffffa084e0a0 [sch_fq_codel] #11 [...] fq_codel_reset at ffffffffa084e2f8 [sch_fq_codel] #12 [...] qdisc_destroy at ffffffff81560d2d #13 [...] htb_destroy_class at ffffffffa08408f8 [sch_htb] #14 [...] htb_put at ffffffffa084095c [sch_htb] #15 [...] tc_ctl_tclass at ffffffff815645a3 #16 [...] rtnetlink_rcv_msg at ffffffff81552cb0 [... snip ...] To my understanding, the following situation is taking place. tc_ctl_tclass -> htb_delete -> class is deleted from clhash -> htb_put -> qdisc_destroy -> fq_codel_reset -> fq_codel_dequeue -> qdidsc_tree_decrease_qlen -> cl = htb_get # returns NULL, removed in htb_delete -> htb_qlen_notify(sch, NULL) # BOOM This patch checks cl for 0 before invoking qlen_notify and put. The notify is not necessary in this case, as the parent has already been deactivated anyway. Signed-off-by: Alex Gartrell <agartr...@fb.com> --- net/sched/sch_api.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sched/sch_api.c b/net/sched/sch_api.c index f06aa01..46be5e5 100644 --- a/net/sched/sch_api.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_api.c @@ -762,8 +762,15 @@ void qdisc_tree_decrease_qlen(struct Qdisc *sch, unsigned int n) cops = sch->ops->cl_ops; if (cops->qlen_notify) { cl = cops->get(sch, parentid); - cops->qlen_notify(sch, cl); - cops->put(sch, cl); + /* This will be 0 in the event that cl is being + * destroyed, in which case we should not attempt + * to invoke qlen_notify upon it (it must be + * cleaned up otherwise anyway. + */ + if (cl != 0) { + cops->qlen_notify(sch, cl); + cops->put(sch, cl); + } } sch->q.qlen -= n; __qdisc_qstats_drop(sch, drops); -- Alex Gartrell <agartr...@fb.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html