Race/problem with hotplug & network interfaces

From: Oleg Drokin (green@ixcelerator.com)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 07:57:51 EST


Hello!

   It seems I have found some kind of race, if hotplug is enabled,
   and one have changing number of network interfaces (observed on ppp).
   I use 2.4.0-test11. Problem is 100% repeatable.

   My test case is this: I start ppp over ssh session, then do ifconfig
   and then kill pppd (by kill -9 pid).
   Immediatelly I getting: 1. waitpid(<somepid>) failed, -512 2. oops.
   Inspecting oops, I have found that
   current->files == NULL in kmod.c::exec_usermodehelper.
   After some investigations, it appears, that when pppd exits,
   ppp interface gets destroyed, and /sbin/hotplug net is called,
   using now dead pppd as parent.
   Simple (and probably not that good) solution is attached as patch, below.
   It get gid of oops, but waitpid failed thing is still there.

   Also I post oops here, too. (sorry, no Code decoding)
 
--- kmod.c.orig Mon Dec 4 15:31:38 2000
+++ kmod.c Mon Dec 4 15:32:25 2000
@@ -99,8 +99,10 @@
         flush_signal_handlers(current);
         spin_unlock_irq(&current->sigmask_lock);
 
- for (i = 0; i < current->files->max_fds; i++ ) {
- if (current->files->fd[i]) close(i);
+ if ( current->files ) {
+ for (i = 0; i < current->files->max_fds; i++ ) {
+ if (current->files->fd[i]) close(i);
+ }
         }
 
         /* Drop the "current user" thing */

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
c01122a4
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c01122a4>]
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EFLAGS: 00010246
eax: c7acea64 ebx: c7a20000 ecx: c1292000 edx: 00000000
esi: 00000006 edi: 00000000 ebp: c1228320 esp: c7a21fb8
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process pppd (pid: 181, stackpage=c7a21000)
Stack: 00000100 c7c43d84 c7c43db4 c7a76b20 c7b8c0c0 c1228320 c7f87a60 c7f87a60
       c7f87a60 c7f87a60 c011259c c01d7ba0 c7c43e44 c7c43e30 c01073f8 c7c43db4
       00000078 c7c43e44
Call Trace: [<c011259c>] [<c01073f8>]
Code: 8b 4f 08 39 ca 7d 22 90 8b 47 14 83 3c 90 00 74 13 89 f0 89

>>EIP; c01122a4 <exec_usermodehelper+298/3d8> <=====
Trace; c011259c <request_module+1b8/1bc>
Trace; c01073f8 <kernel_thread+28/1b8>

Bye,
    Oleg
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