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Koki Sanagi
ec764bf083 net: tracepoint of net_dev_xmit sees freed skb and causes panic
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>
2011-06-02 14:06:31 -07:00
Koki Sanagi
cf66ba58b5 netdev: Add tracepoints to netdev layer
This patch adds tracepoint to dev_queue_xmit, dev_hard_start_xmit,
netif_rx and netif_receive_skb. These tracepoints help you to monitor
network driver's input/output.

          <idle>-0     [001] 112447.902030: netif_rx: dev=eth1 skbaddr=f3ef0900 len=84
          <idle>-0     [001] 112447.902039: netif_receive_skb: dev=eth1 skbaddr=f3ef0900 len=84
            sshd-6828  [000] 112447.903257: net_dev_queue: dev=eth4 skbaddr=f3fca538 len=226
            sshd-6828  [000] 112447.903260: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth4 skbaddr=f3fca538 len=226 rc=0

Signed-off-by: Koki Sanagi <sanagi.koki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Kaneshige Kenji <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Izumo Taku <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Scott Mcmillan <scott.a.mcmillan@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C72431E.3000901@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-09-07 17:51:33 +02:00