From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752819AbaIIXsP (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2014 19:48:15 -0400 Received: from mail.anarazel.de ([217.115.131.40]:51835 "EHLO mail.anarazel.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751345AbaIIXsN (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2014 19:48:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 01:48:06 +0200 From: Andres Freund To: Cong Wang Cc: "Alexander Y. Fomichev" , David Miller , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , netdev , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Macvlan WARNiNGS about duplicate sysfs filenames (Was [GIT] Networking) Message-ID: <20140909234806.GG24649@awork2.anarazel.de> References: <20140907.164109.1944849896872238507.davem@davemloft.net> <20140908212514.GA2348@awork2.anarazel.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2014-09-09 15:43:55 -0700, Cong Wang wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > > Hi, > > > > (don't have netdev archived, thus answering here, sorry) > > > > On 2014-09-07 16:41:09 -0700, David Miller wrote: > >> Alexander Y. Fomichev (1): > >> net: prevent of emerging cross-namespace symlinks > > > > Since you are quoting this change, are you saying it causes > the following kernel warning? I thought it might be a likely candidate; but I'm not sure at all. I'll verify it as soon as I can reboot the machine a couple of times (end of week-ish). > > I'm seeing WARNINGs like: > > [ 1005.269134] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > > [ 1005.269148] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 4213 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x64/0x80() > > [ 1005.269150] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:03:00.0/net/eth0/upper_mv-eth0' > > > Is there a network device named upper_mv-eth0 existed in your system > before you created macvlan? No, there wasn't any. Afaics, the sequence is: 1) macvlan mv-eth0 is created in global namespace 2) mv-eth0 is moved (by systemd-nsspawn) into a new network namespace. Leaving a dangling symlink in the host namespace /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:03:00.0/net/eth0/upper_mv-eth0 pointing toward ../mv-eth0 which doesn't exist in the external namespace. The new namespace seems to have broken 'lower_bond0' symlink as well This seems to be the case (and probably the actual root cause) in slightly earlier kernels as well. What changed seems to be that: 3) macvlan mv-eth0 is destroyed in the namespace (potentially while tearing it down) 4) Now there's a broken symlink that doesn't make sense in any namespace 5) mv-eth0 can't be created anew It seems that 3-5 didn't happen that way on older kernels. The most recent where it's not persistently broken is 3.16.0-rc7-00007 - 31dab719f. The oldest where I know it's reproducible is 3.17.0-rc4-andres-00135-g35af256. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services