Re: PROBLEM: Memory leak (at least with SLUB) from "secpath_dup" (xfrm) in 3.5+ kernels

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 06:24 +0600, Mike Kazantsev wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 04:45:40 +0600
> Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > kmemleak mechanism seem to provide stack traces and interesting calls
> > for debugging of whatever is allocating the non-freed objects, so guess
> > I'll see if I can get more definitive (to my ignorant eye) "look here"
> > hint from it, and might drop one more mail with data from there.
> > 
> 
> kmemleak finds a lot (dozens megabytes of stack traces) of identical
> paths leading to a leaks:
> 
> (for IPv6 packets)
> unreferenced object 0xffff88002fa25b00 (size 56):
>   comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4295009073 (age 295.620s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 fc 6e 30 00 88 ff ff  ..........n0....
>     6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
>   backtrace:
>     [<ffffffff814cfa2b>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x3e
>     [<ffffffff810d9445>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xa5/0xb1
>     [<ffffffff8147dd35>] secpath_dup+0x1b/0x5a
>     [<ffffffff8147df39>] xfrm_input+0x64/0x484
>     [<ffffffff814b1d2c>] xfrm6_rcv_spi+0x19/0x1b
>     [<ffffffff814b1d4e>] xfrm6_rcv+0x20/0x22
>     [<ffffffff8148c19f>] ip6_input_finish+0x203/0x31b
>     [<ffffffff8148c622>] ip6_input+0x1e/0x50
>     [<ffffffff8148c31c>] ip6_rcv_finish+0x65/0x69
>     [<ffffffff8148c5a3>] ipv6_rcv+0x283/0x2e4
>     [<ffffffff813ff8ba>] __netif_receive_skb+0x599/0x64c
>     [<ffffffff813ffb08>] netif_receive_skb+0x47/0x78
>     [<ffffffff81400644>] napi_skb_finish+0x21/0x53
>     [<ffffffff81400778>] napi_gro_receive+0x102/0x10e
>     [<ffffffff8136978b>] rtl8169_poll+0x326/0x4f9
>     [<ffffffff813ffcda>] net_rx_action+0x9f/0x175
> 
> (for IPv4 packets)
> unreferenced object 0xffff88003387e000 (size 56):
>   comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294915803 (age 563.583s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 48 be 30 00 88 ff ff  .........H.0....
>     6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
>   backtrace:
>     [<ffffffff814cfa2b>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x3e
>     [<ffffffff810d9445>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xa5/0xb1
>     [<ffffffff8147dd35>] secpath_dup+0x1b/0x5a
>     [<ffffffff8147df39>] xfrm_input+0x64/0x484
>     [<ffffffff81474f7b>] xfrm4_rcv_encap+0x17/0x19
>     [<ffffffff81474f9c>] xfrm4_rcv+0x1f/0x21
>     [<ffffffff81430514>] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x170/0x22a
>     [<ffffffff81430706>] ip_local_deliver+0x46/0x78
>     [<ffffffff8143038d>] ip_rcv_finish+0x2bd/0x2d4
>     [<ffffffff81430969>] ip_rcv+0x231/0x28c
>     [<ffffffff813ff8ba>] __netif_receive_skb+0x599/0x64c
>     [<ffffffff813ffb08>] netif_receive_skb+0x47/0x78
>     [<ffffffff81400644>] napi_skb_finish+0x21/0x53
>     [<ffffffff81400778>] napi_gro_receive+0x102/0x10e
>     [<ffffffff8136978b>] rtl8169_poll+0x326/0x4f9
>     [<ffffffff813ffcda>] net_rx_action+0x9f/0x175
> 
> Object at the top and trace seem to be the same (between same
> IP-family) everywhere, just ages and addresses are different.
> 
> IPv6 usage seem to be one important detail which I failed to mention.
> IPv4 traces seem to be really rare (only several of them), but that
> might be understandable because rsync was ran over IPv6.
> 
> Still wasn't able to figure out what might cause the get's/put's
> disbalance with that commit, but was able to revert it, without
> anything bad happening (so far), using the patch below (in case
> issue might bite someone else before proper fix is found).
> 
> 
> --
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
> index 6e04b1f..52a9d40 100644
> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
> @@ -427,26 +427,8 @@ struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
>  				   unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask)
>  {
>  	struct sk_buff *skb = NULL;
> -	unsigned int fragsz = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(length + NET_SKB_PAD) +
> -			      SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info));
> -
> -	if (fragsz <= PAGE_SIZE && !(gfp_mask & (__GFP_WAIT | GFP_DMA))) {
> -		void *data;
> -
> -		if (sk_memalloc_socks())
> -			gfp_mask |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;
> -
> -		data = __netdev_alloc_frag(fragsz, gfp_mask);
> -
> -		if (likely(data)) {
> -			skb = build_skb(data, fragsz);
> -			if (unlikely(!skb))
> -				put_page(virt_to_head_page(data));
> -		}
> -	} else {
> -		skb = __alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask,
> +	skb = __alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask,
>  				  SKB_ALLOC_RX, NUMA_NO_NODE);
> -	}
>  	if (likely(skb)) {
>  		skb_reserve(skb, NET_SKB_PAD);
>  		skb->dev = dev;
> 
> 



Did you try linux-3.7-rc2 (or linux-3.7-rc1) ?



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