On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 01:29:08 +0100 Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 04:18:53PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > IPv6 duplicate address detection is triggering the following assertion > > failure when using macvlan + vif + multicast. > > RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (4496) > > > > This happens because the DAD timer is adding a multicast address without > > acquiring the RTNL mutex. In order to acquire the RTNL mutex, it must be > > done in process context; therefore it must be in a workqueue. > > > > Full backtrace: > > [ 541.030090] RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (4496) > > [ 541.031143] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G O 3.10.33-1-amd64-vyatta #1 > > [ 541.031145] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2007 > > [ 541.031146] ffffffff8148a9f0 000000000000002f ffffffff813c98c1 ffff88007c4451f8 > > [ 541.031148] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff813d3540 ffff88007fc03d18 > > [ 541.031150] 0000880000000006 ffff88007c445000 ffffffffa0194160 0000000000000000 > > [ 541.031152] Call Trace: > > [ 541.031153] <IRQ> [<ffffffff8148a9f0>] ? dump_stack+0xd/0x17 > > [ 541.031180] [<ffffffff813c98c1>] ? __dev_set_promiscuity+0x101/0x180 > > [ 541.031183] [<ffffffff813d3540>] ? __hw_addr_create_ex+0x60/0xc0 > > [ 541.031185] [<ffffffff813cfe1a>] ? __dev_set_rx_mode+0xaa/0xc0 > > [ 541.031189] [<ffffffff813d3a81>] ? __dev_mc_add+0x61/0x90 > > [ 541.031198] [<ffffffffa01dcf9c>] ? igmp6_group_added+0xfc/0x1a0 [ipv6] > > [ 541.031208] [<ffffffff8111237b>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0xcb/0xd0 > > [ 541.031212] [<ffffffffa01ddcd7>] ? ipv6_dev_mc_inc+0x267/0x300 [ipv6] > > [ 541.031216] [<ffffffffa01c2fae>] ? addrconf_join_solict+0x2e/0x40 [ipv6] > > [ 541.031219] [<ffffffffa01ba2e9>] ? ipv6_dev_ac_inc+0x159/0x1f0 [ipv6] > > [ 541.031223] [<ffffffffa01c0772>] ? addrconf_join_anycast+0x92/0xa0 [ipv6] > > [ 541.031226] [<ffffffffa01c311e>] ? __ipv6_ifa_notify+0x11e/0x1e0 [ipv6] > > [ 541.031229] [<ffffffffa01c3213>] ? ipv6_ifa_notify+0x33/0x50 [ipv6] > > This is the most often case but I fear there are more of them. > > addrconf_verify seems unsafe, too, when removing the last ipv6 address. So > does addrconf_prefix_rcv if adding first address. > > I wonder if we should put the whole ipv6_ifa_notify infrastructure in a > workqueue? I don't like that either and it could add subtile races. That is option, might be some call chains that already have rtnl_lock held. > > Those races also seem possible if we only defer addrconf_join_solict, > addrconf_leave_solict, addrconf_join_anycast and addrconf_leave_anycast to > workqueues. > > This change is certainly going into the right direction but I am not sure if > we could generalize it. There is a lot of bookkeeping that happens for cases where nothing changes at the device layer. Want to avoid rtnl_lock unless there is something that is going to happen. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html