Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

[Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>]

Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, David Miller wrote:
> 
>> From: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-linuxkernel@reub.net>
>> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:59:37 +1100
>>
>>> On 5/12/2007 4:17 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>> - Lots of device IDs have been removed from the e1000 driver and moved over
>>>>   to e1000e.  So if your e1000 stops working, you forgot to set CONFIG_E1000E.
>>> This non fatal oops which I have just noticed may be related to this change then 
>>> - certainly looks networking related.
>>>
>>> WARNING: at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2518 tcp_fastretrans_alert()
>>> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 #1
>>>
>>> Call Trace:
>>>   <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8046e038>] tcp_fastretrans_alert+0x229/0xe63
>>>   [<ffffffff80470975>] tcp_ack+0xa3f/0x127d
>>>   [<ffffffff804747b7>] tcp_rcv_established+0x55f/0x7f8
>>>   [<ffffffff8047b1aa>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0xdb/0x3a7
>>>   [<ffffffff881148a8>] :nf_conntrack:nf_ct_deliver_cached_events+0x75/0x99
>> No, it's from TCP assertions and changes added by Ilpo to the
>> net-2.6.25 tree recently.
> 
> Yeah, this (very likely) due to the new SACK processing (in net-2.6.25). 
> I'll look what could go wrong with fack_count calculations, most likely 
> it's the reason (I've found earlier one out-of-place retransmission 
> segment in one of my test case which already indicated that there's 
> something incorrect with them but didn't have time to debug it yet).
> 
> Thanks for report. Some info about how easily you can reproduce & 
> couple of sentences about the test case might be useful later on when 
> evaluating the fix.

I also got plenty of these when untaring a tarball on NFS.

C. 

WARNING: at /home/legoater/linux/2.6.24-rc4-mm1/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2518 tcp_fastretrans_alert()
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 #2

Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff804115bf>] tcp_fastretrans_alert+0xb6/0xbf2
 [<ffffffff80413f30>] tcp_ack+0xdf3/0xfbe
 [<ffffffff803da8fb>] sk_reset_timer+0x17/0x23
 [<ffffffff80416d1e>] tcp_rcv_established+0xf3/0x76d
 [<ffffffff8041d231>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x37/0x3aa
 [<ffffffff8041fb1f>] tcp_v4_rcv+0x9a9/0xa76
 [<ffffffff80402e4e>] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x161/0x23c
 [<ffffffff80403363>] ip_local_deliver+0x72/0x77
 [<ffffffff80402ca9>] ip_rcv_finish+0x371/0x3b5
 [<ffffffff804032bd>] ip_rcv+0x292/0x2c6
 [<ffffffff803e3dcc>] netif_receive_skb+0x267/0x340
 [<ffffffff8806eff4>] :tg3:tg3_poll+0x5d2/0x89e
 [<ffffffff803e639d>] net_rx_action+0xd5/0x1ad
 [<ffffffff8023b605>] __do_softirq+0x5f/0xe3
 [<ffffffff8020c86c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
 [<ffffffff8020e739>] do_softirq+0x39/0x9f
 [<ffffffff8023b5a4>] irq_exit+0x4e/0x50
 [<ffffffff8020e880>] do_IRQ+0xb7/0xd7
 [<ffffffff8020a803>] mwait_idle+0x0/0x55
 [<ffffffff8020bb66>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xf
 <EOI>  [<ffffffff8024d623>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x20/0x83
 [<ffffffff8020a84b>] mwait_idle+0x48/0x55
 [<ffffffff80209e79>] enter_idle+0x22/0x24
 [<ffffffff8020a793>] cpu_idle+0xa1/0xc5
 [<ffffffff8021dfd5>] start_secondary+0x3b9/0x3c5

WARNING: at /home/legoater/linux/2.6.24-rc4-mm1/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2518 tcp_fastretrans_alert()
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 #2

Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff804115bf>] tcp_fastretrans_alert+0xb6/0xbf2
 [<ffffffff80413f30>] tcp_ack+0xdf3/0xfbe
 [<ffffffff804153b8>] tcp_data_queue+0x5da/0xb0a
 [<ffffffff80416d1e>] tcp_rcv_established+0xf3/0x76d
 [<ffffffff8041d231>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x37/0x3aa
 [<ffffffff8041fb1f>] tcp_v4_rcv+0x9a9/0xa76
 [<ffffffff80402e4e>] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x161/0x23c
 [<ffffffff80403363>] ip_local_deliver+0x72/0x77
 [<ffffffff80402ca9>] ip_rcv_finish+0x371/0x3b5
 [<ffffffff804032bd>] ip_rcv+0x292/0x2c6
 [<ffffffff803e3dcc>] netif_receive_skb+0x267/0x340
 [<ffffffff8806eff4>] :tg3:tg3_poll+0x5d2/0x89e
 [<ffffffff803e639d>] net_rx_action+0xd5/0x1ad
 [<ffffffff8023b605>] __do_softirq+0x5f/0xe3
 [<ffffffff8020c86c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
 [<ffffffff8020e739>] do_softirq+0x39/0x9f
 [<ffffffff8023b5a4>] irq_exit+0x4e/0x50
 [<ffffffff8020e880>] do_IRQ+0xb7/0xd7
 [<ffffffff8020a803>] mwait_idle+0x0/0x55
 [<ffffffff8020bb66>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xf
 <EOI>  [<ffffffff8024d623>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x20/0x83
 [<ffffffff8020a84b>] mwait_idle+0x48/0x55
 [<ffffffff80209e79>] enter_idle+0x22/0x24
 [<ffffffff8020a793>] cpu_idle+0xa1/0xc5
 [<ffffffff8021dfd5>] start_secondary+0x3b9/0x3c5

WARNING: at /home/legoater/linux/2.6.24-rc4-mm1/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2518 tcp_fastretrans_alert()
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 #2

Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff804115bf>] tcp_fastretrans_alert+0xb6/0xbf2
 [<ffffffff80413f30>] tcp_ack+0xdf3/0xfbe
 [<ffffffff804153b8>] tcp_data_queue+0x5da/0xb0a
 [<ffffffff80416d1e>] tcp_rcv_established+0xf3/0x76d
 [<ffffffff8041d231>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x37/0x3aa
 [<ffffffff8041fb1f>] tcp_v4_rcv+0x9a9/0xa76
 [<ffffffff80402e4e>] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x161/0x23c
 [<ffffffff80403363>] ip_local_deliver+0x72/0x77
 [<ffffffff80402ca9>] ip_rcv_finish+0x371/0x3b5
 [<ffffffff804032bd>] ip_rcv+0x292/0x2c6
 [<ffffffff803e3dcc>] netif_receive_skb+0x267/0x340
 [<ffffffff8806eff4>] :tg3:tg3_poll+0x5d2/0x89e
 [<ffffffff803e639d>] net_rx_action+0xd5/0x1ad
 [<ffffffff8023b605>] __do_softirq+0x5f/0xe3
 [<ffffffff8020c86c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
 [<ffffffff8020e739>] do_softirq+0x39/0x9f
 [<ffffffff8023b5a4>] irq_exit+0x4e/0x50
 [<ffffffff8020e880>] do_IRQ+0xb7/0xd7
 [<ffffffff8020a803>] mwait_idle+0x0/0x55
 [<ffffffff8020bb66>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xf
 <EOI>  [<ffffffff8024d623>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x20/0x83
 [<ffffffff8020a84b>] mwait_idle+0x48/0x55
 [<ffffffff80209e79>] enter_idle+0x22/0x24
 [<ffffffff8020a793>] cpu_idle+0xa1/0xc5
 [<ffffffff8021dfd5>] start_secondary+0x3b9/0x3c5