Re: net: hang in unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free

From: Neil Horman
Date: Tue Feb 20 2018 - 11:27:24 EST


On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 09:14:41AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:56 AM, Tommi Rantala
> <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 19.02.2018 20:59, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 1/30/18 1:57 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 1/30/18 1:08 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 01/30/2018 07:32 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 4:09 AM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> The following program creates a hang in unregister_netdevice.
> >>>>>>>>> cleanup_net work hangs there forever periodically printing
> >>>>>>>>> "unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count =
> >>>>>>>>> 3"
> >>>>>>>>> and creation of any new network namespaces hangs forever.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Interestingly, this is not reproducible on net-next.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The most recent change on netns refcnt was 4ee806d51176 ("net: tcp:
> >>>>>>> close
> >>>>>>> sock if net namespace is exiting") in net/net-next from 5 days ago,
> >>>>>>> maybe
> >>>>>>> fixed due to that?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> This appears to be the commit introducing the refcnt leak:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> $ git bisect bad
> >>>>>> dbc2b5e9a09e9a6664679a667ff81cff6e5f2641 is the first bad commit
> >>>>>> commit dbc2b5e9a09e9a6664679a667ff81cff6e5f2641
> >>>>>> Author: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>> Date: Fri May 12 14:39:52 2017 +0800
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> sctp: fix src address selection if using secondary addresses for
> >>>>>> ipv6
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> v4.14 is bad. Running bisect in the background while doing other
> >>>>>> things....
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Interesting. The commit that avoids the refcnt leak is
> >>>>>
> >>>>> commit 955ec4cb3b54c7c389a9f830be7d3ae2056b9212
> >>>>> Author: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Date: Wed Jan 24 19:45:29 2018 -0800
> >>>>>
> >>>>> net/ipv6: Do not allow route add with a device that is down
> >>>>>
> >>>>> That commit does not intentionally address the problem so it is just
> >>>>> masking the problematic code introduced by the commit above.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks, David A.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm still on a trip. will look into this asap.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Alexey and Tommi already had the patches for this issue on
> >>> both SCTP v4 and v6 dst_get, Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Is this meant to be fixed already? I am still seeing this on the
> >> latest upstream tree.
> >>
> >
> > These two commits are in v4.16-rc1:
> >
> > commit 4a31a6b19f9ddf498c81f5c9b089742b7472a6f8
> > Author: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon Feb 5 21:48:14 2018 +0200
> >
> > sctp: fix dst refcnt leak in sctp_v4_get_dst
> > ...
> > Fixes: 410f03831 ("sctp: add routing output fallback")
> > Fixes: 0ca50d12f ("sctp: fix src address selection if using secondary
> > addresses")
> >
> >
> > commit 957d761cf91cdbb175ad7d8f5472336a4d54dbf2
> > Author: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon Feb 5 15:10:35 2018 +0300
> >
> > sctp: fix dst refcnt leak in sctp_v6_get_dst()
> > ...
> > Fixes: dbc2b5e9a09e ("sctp: fix src address selection if using secondary
> > addresses for ipv6")
> >
> >
> > I guess we missed something if it's still reproducible.
> >
> > I can check it later this week, unless someone else beat me to it.
>
> Hi Tommi,
>
> Hmmm, I can't claim that it's exactly the same bug. Perhaps it's
> another one then. But I am still seeing these:
>
> [ 58.799130] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
> Usage count = 4
> [ 60.847138] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
> Usage count = 4
> [ 62.895093] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
> Usage count = 4
> [ 64.943103] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
> Usage count = 4
>
> on upstream tree pulled ~12 hours ago.
>
Can you write a systemtap script to probe dev_hold, and dev_put, printing out a
backtrace if the device name matches "lo". That should tell us definitively if
the problem is in the same location or not

Neil

> Kernel does not detect this as any kind of BUG/WARNING, so
> syzkaller/syzbot do not catch it as bug and do not try to reproduce,
> localize and report.
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