Re: netfilter: active obj WARN when cleaning up
From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Nov 27 2013 - 05:45:36 EST
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 02:11:57PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > Ping? I still see this warning.
>
> Did your test include patch 0c3c6c00c6?
And how is that patch supposed to help?
> > >[ 418.312449] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 4178 at lib/debugobjects.c:260 debug_print_object+0x8d/0xb0()
> > >[ 418.313243] ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint:
> > >delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x20
> > >[ 418.321101] [<ffffffff812874d7>] kmem_cache_free+0x197/0x340
> > >[ 418.321101] [<ffffffff81249e76>] kmem_cache_destroy+0x86/0xe0
> > >[ 418.321101] [<ffffffff83d5d681>] nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list+0x131/0x170
The debug code detects an active timer, which itself is part of a
delayed work struct. The call comes from kmem_cache_destroy().
kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache, s);
So debug object says: s contains an active timer. s is the kmem_cache
which is destroyed from nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list.
Now struct kmem_cache has in case of SLUB:
struct kobject kobj; /* For sysfs */
and struct kobject has:
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
struct delayed_work release;
#endif
So this is the thing you want to look at:
commit c817a67ec (kobject: delayed kobject release: help find buggy
drivers) added that delayed work thing.
I fear that does not work for kobjects which are embedded into
something else.
Handing off to rmk, mm and kobject folks.
Thanks,
tglx
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