Re: [CFT] SIFTR - Statistical Information For TCP Research: Uncle Lawrence needs YOU!

From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen_at_fabiankeil.de>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:15:54 +0200
Lawrence Stewart <lstewart_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 06/20/10 22:28, Fabian Keil wrote:
> > Lawrence Stewart<lstewart_at_freebsd.org>  wrote:
> >
> >> On 06/20/10 21:15, Fabian Keil wrote:
> >>> Lawrence Stewart<lstewart_at_freebsd.org>   wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 06/20/10 03:58, Fabian Keil wrote:
> >>>>> Lawrence Stewart<lstewart_at_freebsd.org>    wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 06/13/10 18:12, Lawrence Stewart wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>> The time has come to solicit some external testing for my SIFTR tool.
> >>>>>>> I'm hoping to commit it within a week or so unless problems are discovered.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>> I'm interested in all feedback and reports of success/failure, along
> >>>>>>> with details of the architecture tested and number of CPUs if you would
> >>>>>>> be so kind.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I got the following hand-transcribed panic maybe a second after
> >>>>> sysctl net.inet.siftr.enabled=1
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> >>>>> cpuid = 1; apic id = 01
> >>>>> [...]
> >>>>> current process = 12 (swi4: clock)
> >>>>> [ thread pid 12 tid 100006 ]
> >>>>> Stopped at	siftr_chkpkt+0xd0:	addq	$0x1,0x8(%r14)
> >>>>> db>    where
> >>>>> Tracing pid 12 tid 100006 td 0xffffff00034037e0
> >>>>> siftr_chkpt() at siftr_chkpkt+0xd0
> >>>>> pfil_run_hooks() at pfil_run_hooks+0xb4
> >>>>> ip_output() at ip_output+0x382
> >>>>> tcp_output() tcp_output+0xa41
> >>>>> tcp_timer_rexmt() at tcp_timer_rexmt+0x251
> >>>>> softclock() at softclock+0x291
> >>>>> intr_event_execute_handlers() at intr_event_execute_handlers+0x66
> >>>>> ithread_loop at ithread_loop+0x8e
> >>>>> fork_exit() at fork_exit+0x112
> >>>>> fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0xe
> >>>>> --- trap 0, rip = 0, rsp = 0xffffff800003ad30, rbp = 0 ---
> >>>>
> >>>> So I've tracked down the line of code where the page fault is occurring:
> >>>>
> >>>>            if (dir == PFIL_IN)
> >>>>                    ss->n_in++;
> >>>>            else
> >>>>                    ss->n_out++;
> >>>>
> >>>> ss is a DPCPU (dynamic per-cpu) variable used to keep a set of stats
> >>>> per-cpu and is initialised at the start of the function like so:
> >>>>
> >>>>            ss = DPCPU_PTR(ss);
> >>>>
> >>>> So for ss to be NULL, that implies DPCPU_PTR() is returning NULL on your
> >>>> machine. I know very little about the inner workings of the DPCPU_*
> >>>> macros, but I'm pretty sure the way I use them in SIFTR is correct or at
> >>>> least as intended.
> >>>
> >>> siftr_chkpkt() passes ss to siftr_chkreinject() before dereferencing
> >>> it itself. I think if ss was NULL, the panic should already occur in
> >>> siftr_chkreinject().
> >>
> >> Yes but siftr_chkreinject() only dereferences ss in the exceptional case
> >> of a malloc failure or duplicate pkt. It's unlikely either case happens
> >> for you and so wouldn't trigger the panic.
> >>
> >>> To be sure I added:
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/sys/netinet/siftr.c b/sys/netinet/siftr.c
> >>> index 8bc3498..b9fdfe4 100644
> >>> --- a/sys/netinet/siftr.c
> >>> +++ b/sys/netinet/siftr.c
> >>> _at__at_ -788,6 +788,16 _at__at_ siftr_chkpkt(void *arg, struct mbuf **m, struct ifnet *ifp, int dir,
> >>>           if (siftr_chkreinject(*m, dir, ss))
> >>>                   goto ret;
> >>>
> >>> +       if (ss == NULL) {
> >>> +           printf("ss is NULL");
> >>> +           ss = DPCPU_PTR(ss);
> >>> +           if (ss == NULL) {
> >>> +              printf("ss is still NULL");
> >>> +              goto ret;
> >>> +           }
> >>> +        }
> >>> +
> >>> +
> >>>           if (dir == PFIL_IN)
> >>>                   ss->n_in++;
> >>>           else
> >>>
> >>> which doesn't seem to affect the problem.
> >>
> >> As in it still panics and the "ss is NULL" message is not printed? I
> >> would have expected to at least see "ss is NULL" printed if my
> >> hypothesis was correct... hmm.
> >
> > Yes, it still panics, but no message is printed.
> 
> It was just pointed out to me that ss doesn't have to be NULL in order 
> to cause the page fault (duh). It could also just be a garbage ptr which 
> is why your print statement isn't firing.
> 
> Can you trigger the panic again and look for some information along the 
> lines of "fault virtual address = ..." as part of the panic info. 
> Knowing the faulting address would be useful and may help further diagnosis.

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
cpuid = 1; apic id = 01
fault virtual address	= 0xffffff7f808f9de8
fault code		= supervisor write data, page not present
instruction pointer	= 0x20:0xffffffff8241f800
stack pointer		= 0x28:0xffffff800003a7d0
frame pointer		= 0x28:0xffffff800003a840
code segment		= base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
			= DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1
processor eflags	= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process = 12 (swi4: clock)
[ thread pid 12 tid 100006 ]
Stopped at	siftr_chkpkt+0xd0:	addq	$0x1,0x8(%r14)
db> where  
Tracing pid 12 tid 100006 td 0xffffff00034037e0
siftr_chkpt() at siftr_chkpkt+0xd0
pfil_run_hooks() at pfil_run_hooks+0xb4
ip_output() at ip_output+0x382
tcp_output() tcp_output+0xa41
tcp_timer_rexmt() at tcp_timer_rexmt+0x251
softclock() at softclock+0x291
intr_event_execute_handlers() at intr_event_execute_handlers+0x66
ithread_loop at ithread_loop+0x8e
fork_exit() at fork_exit+0x112
fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0xe
--- trap 0, rip = 0, rsp = 0xffffff800003ad30, rbp = 0 ---

> >>>> Could you please go ahead and retest using a GENERIC kernel and see if
> >>>> you can reproduce? There could be something in your custom kernel
> >>>> causing the offsets or linker set magic used by the DPCPU bits to break
> >>>> which in turn is triggering this panic in SIFTR.
> >>>
> >>> I'll retry without pf first, and with GENERIC afterwards.
> >>
> >> Sounds good, thanks.
> >
> > Taking pf (and altq) out of the picture doesn't seem to make
> > a difference.
> 
> Wouldn't have expected it to. Will be very curious to know if the panic 
> is triggered in GENERIC.

It's not. I, too, get pfil.c related LORs though:

lock order reversal:
 1st 0xffffffff80e5c568 PFil hook read/write mutex (PFil hook read/write mutex) _at_ /usr/src/sys/net/pfil.c:77
 2nd 0xffffffff80e5dd68 udp (udp) _at_ /usr/src/sys/modules/pf/../../contrib/pf/net/pf.c:3035
KDB: stack backtrace:
db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x2a
_witness_debugger() at _witness_debugger+0x2e
witness_checkorder() at witness_checkorder+0x81e
_rw_rlock() at _rw_rlock+0x5f
pf_socket_lookup() at pf_socket_lookup+0x1c5
pf_test_udp() at pf_test_udp+0x8b0
pf_test() at pf_test+0x1089
pf_check_in() at pf_check_in+0x39
pfil_run_hooks() at pfil_run_hooks+0xcf
ip_input() at ip_input+0x2ae
swi_net() at swi_net+0x151
intr_event_execute_handlers() at intr_event_execute_handlers+0x66
ithread_loop() at ithread_loop+0xb2
fork_exit() at fork_exit+0x12a
fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0xe
--- trap 0, rip = 0, rsp = 0xffffff8000044d30, rbp = 0 ---
lock order reversal:
 1st 0xffffffff80e5c568 PFil hook read/write mutex (PFil hook read/write mutex) _at_ /usr/src/sys/net/pfil.c:77
 2nd 0xffffffff80e5d788 tcp (tcp) _at_ /usr/src/sys/modules/siftr/../../netinet/siftr.c:698
KDB: stack backtrace:
db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x2a
_witness_debugger() at _witness_debugger+0x2e
witness_checkorder() at witness_checkorder+0x81e
_rw_rlock() at _rw_rlock+0x5f
siftr_chkpkt() at siftr_chkpkt+0x3c4
pfil_run_hooks() at pfil_run_hooks+0xcf
ip_input() at ip_input+0x2ae
swi_net() at swi_net+0x151
intr_event_execute_handlers() at intr_event_execute_handlers+0x66
ithread_loop() at ithread_loop+0xb2
fork_exit() at fork_exit+0x12a
fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0xe
--- trap 0, rip = 0, rsp = 0xffffff8000044d30, rbp = 0 ---

My custom kernel normally doesn't have INVARIANTS and WITNESS
enabled, so I'll try to enable them next.

Fabian

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