On 06.12.2019 14:09, Ophir Munk wrote:
> Hi Ilya,
> I applied this series on master ("dpdk: Update to use DPDK 19.11.") and 
> PINGed between two "dpdk" ports (hw-offload=true).
> It worked fine.
> Then I watched flow statistics (dpif based) by executing the command in (1):
> (1) watch ovs-appctl dpif/dump-flows -m <bridge name>
> It worked fine.
> Then I watched flow statistics (dpctl based) by executing the command in (2):
> (2) watch ovs-appctl dpctl/dump-flows
> In this case OVS crashed after a few seconds.
> 
> When inspecting the calls trace I notice that pmd->dp->dpif->dpif_class->type 
> is a corrupted memory address.
> 
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0000000000c26fda in dpif_normalize_type (type=0x7372 <Address 0x7372 
> out of bounds>) at lib/dpif.c:517
> #1  0x0000000000c19864 in dp_netdev_flow_offload_put 
> (offload=offload@entry=0x7f11fc00b790) at lib/dpif-netdev.c:2378
> #2  0x0000000000c19ca8 in dp_netdev_flow_offload_main (data=<optimized out>) 
> at lib/dpif-netdev.c:2467
> #3  0x0000000000ca3c9d in ovsthread_wrapper (aux_=<optimized out>) at 
> lib/ovs-thread.c:383
> #4  0x00007f12a2a08e25 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> #5  0x00007f12a222c34d in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> 
> This scenario repeats whenever running the command in (2) and when the code 
> calls dpif_normalize_type().
> It seems to me that the memory corruption was there for a while but only now 
> it is exposed due to your rfc series.
> 
> In order to observe this memory corruption I added the following printouts.
> I tested it with hw-offload=false: 
> ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:hw-offload=false
> I tested it on latest master without your rfc series.
> 
> diff --git a/lib/dpif-netdev.c b/lib/dpif-netdev.c
> index 1e54936..18a804a 100644
> --- a/lib/dpif-netdev.c
> +++ b/lib/dpif-netdev.c
> @@ -3625,6 +3625,10 @@ dpif_netdev_flow_dump_next(struct 
> dpif_flow_dump_thread *thread_,
>              }
>          }
>  
> +        VLOG_ERR("pmd->dp=%p pmd->dp->dpif=%p pmd->dp->dpif->dpif_class=%p \
> +                 pmd->dp->dpif->full_name=%s",
> +                 pmd->dp, pmd->dp->dpif, pmd->dp->dpif->dpif_class,
> +                 pmd->dp->dpif->full_name);
>          do {
>              for (n_flows = 0; n_flows < flow_limit; n_flows++) {
>                  struct cmap_node *node;
> 
> 
> Looking at the printouts the memory corruption is observed.
> 
> Initially all printouts are identical and correct as expected.
> 
> dpif_netdev(revalidator82)|ERR|pmd->dp=0x7fdfea3ea010 pmd->dp->dpif=0x2525e70 
> pmd->dp->dpif->dpif_class=0xef3e80 pmd->dp->dpif->full_name=netdev@ovs-netdev
> dpif_netdev(revalidator82)|ERR|pmd->dp=0x7fdfea3ea010 pmd->dp->dpif=0x2525e70 
> pmd->dp->dpif->dpif_class=0xef3e80 pmd->dp->dpif->full_name=netdev@ovs-netdev
> dpif_netdev(revalidator82)|ERR|pmd->dp=0x7fdfea3ea010 pmd->dp->dpif=0x2525e70 
> pmd->dp->dpif->dpif_class=0xef3e80 pmd->dp->dpif->full_name=netdev@ovs-netdev
> 
> Around this point I executed the dpctl command in (2) and you can notice that 
> the pointers pmd->dp->dp_dpif and beyond became modified.
> 
> dpif_netdev(revalidator82)|ERR|pmd->dp=0x7fdfea3ea010 pmd->dp->dpif=0x25c3280 
> pmd->dp->dpif->dpif_class=0x251c790 pmd->dp->dpif->full_name=(null)
> dpif_netdev(revalidator82)|ERR|pmd->dp=0x7fdfea3ea010 pmd->dp->dpif=0x25c3280 
> pmd->dp->dpif->dpif_class=0x33c03608 pmd->dp->dpif->full_name=
> dpif_netdev(revalidator82)|ERR|pmd->dp=0x7fdfea3ea010 pmd->dp->dpif=0x25c3280 
> pmd->dp->dpif->dpif_class=0x2605700 pmd->dp->dpif->full_name=
> dpif_netdev(revalidator82)|ERR|pmd->dp=0x7fdfea3ea010 pmd->dp->dpif=0x25c3280 
> pmd->dp->dpif->dpif_class=0xe784250b pmd->dp->dpif->full_name=memseg-2048k-0-3
> dpif_netdev|ERR|pmd->dp=0x7fdfea3ea010 pmd->dp->dpif=0x2602430 
> pmd->dp->dpif->dpif_class=0xef3e80 pmd->dp->dpif->full_name=netdev@ovs-netdev
> dpif_netdev(revalidator82)|ERR|pmd->dp=0x7fdfea3ea010 pmd->dp->dpif=0x2602430 
> pmd->dp->dpif->dpif_class=0x2606200 pmd->dp->dpif->full_name=(null)
> 
> The same happens if I test it with hw-offload=true.
> 
> I hope this scenario can be recreated on other setups as well.

This is interesting.  I'll try to reproduce this issue on my setup.

> I will look more into it.

Thanks!

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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