Public bug reported: I have an Ubuntu 14.04 host that I am using as both a keepalived/ipvs loadbalancer and dnsmasq server for pxebooting servers.
After updating linux-image 3.13.0-29.53 -> 3.13.0-32.57 I noticed that dnsmasq-tftp stopped working. pxeboot clients would hang on the "Loading ..../linux" TFTP transfer, with the transfer stalling roughly ~1000 blocks into the transfer: 10:30:51.011728 IP 10.1.1.2.43540 > 10.1.12.1.49165: UDP, length 1412 10:30:51.011924 IP 10.1.12.1.49165 > 10.1.1.2.43540: UDP, length 4 10:30:51.012012 IP 10.1.1.2.43540 > 10.1.12.1.49165: UDP, length 1412 10:30:51.012183 IP 10.1.12.1.49165 > 10.1.1.2.43540: UDP, length 4 stracing dnsmasq I noticed something very odd: sendto() on the socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) would suddenly start persistently returning EPERM in mid-transfer, even when dnsmasq continued to periodically retry: select(18, [4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 17], [], [], {0, 250000}) = 1 (in [17], left {0, 249834}) recvfrom(17, "\0\4\3\352", 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 4 lseek(16, 1410816, SEEK_SET) = 1410816 read(16, "\25\306\345f\2{\r\4)W\276\32\336q\252_\230q\213\341U\354\25\374k7\243\32\221X+\v"..., 1408) = 1408 sendto(17, "\0\3\3\353\25\306\345f\2{\r\4)W\276\32\336q\252_\230q\213\341U\354\25\374k7\243\32"..., 1412, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(49165), sin_addr=inet_addr("10.1.11.3")}, 16) = 1412 select(18, [4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 17], [], [], {0, 250000}) = 1 (in [17], left {0, 249839}) recvfrom(17, "\0\4\3\353", 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 4 lseek(16, 1412224, SEEK_SET) = 1412224 read(16, "*\360 <C\363l\320:\256~\307\236\26P\323\274%\260\362\341&\232\r\243\370\224\277\221\\\307\372"..., 1408) = 1408 sendto(17, "\0\3\3\354*\360 <C\363l\320:\256~\307\236\26P\323\274%\260\362\341&\232\r\243\370\224\277"..., 1412, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(49165), sin_addr=inet_addr("10.1.11.3")}, 16) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) select(18, [4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 17], [], [], {0, 250000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(18, [4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 17], [], [], {0, 250000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(18, [4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 17], [], [], {0, 250000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(18, [4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 17], [], [], {0, 250000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(18, [4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 17], [], [], {0, 250000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(18, [4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 17], [], [], {0, 250000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(18, [4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 17], [], [], {0, 250000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(18, [4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 17], [], [], {0, 250000}) = 0 (Timeout) lseek(16, 1412224, SEEK_SET) = 1412224 read(16, "*\360 <C\363l\320:\256~\307\236\26P\323\274%\260\362\341&\232\r\243\370\224\277\221\\\307\372"..., 1408) = 1408 sendto(17, "\0\3\3\354*\360 <C\363l\320:\256~\307\236\26P\323\274%\260\362\341&\232\r\243\370\224\277"..., 1412, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(49165), sin_addr=inet_addr("10.1.11.3")}, 16) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) This was with all iptables rules unloaded (so no OUTPUT -j DENY) and apparmor profiles torn down. I also noticed the following dmesgs appearing at roughly similar times to the tftp transfers getting stuck (although not coinciding exactly with the stall): [70325.516724] IPv6 header not found The error pointed to ipvs (which I am using on the same host as an IPv4 NAT loadbalancer): http://archive.linuxvirtualserver.org/html/lvs-devel/2012-08/msg00018.html http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.linux.lvs.devel/3614 I then tore down the ipvs rules (service keepalived stop) and unloaded the modules (rmmod ip_vs_rr ip_vs), and the issue resolved itself - the stalled dnsmasq-tftp transfer resumed! This seems to be reproducible, i.e. modprobing ip_vs and starting keepalived will cause dnsmasq-tftp to stall again, and stopping/unloading will resume. This seems to happen reproducibly on boot with -32 and -30. This does NOT seem to happen with 3.13.0-29 which I was using up until now. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** No longer affects: biosdevname (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1349768 Title: kernel 3.13.0-32 ipvs "IPv6 header not found" related to UDP socket sendto() EPERM errors To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1349768/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs