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[PATCH 3.18 07/36] Fix an intermittent pr_emerg warning about lo becoming free.

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3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>


[ Upstream commit f186ce61bb8235d80068c390dc2aad7ca427a4c2 ]

It looks like this:

Message from syslogd@flamingo at Apr 26 00:45:00 ...
 kernel:unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 4

They seem to coincide with net namespace teardown.

The message is emitted by netdev_wait_allrefs().

Forced a kdump in netdev_run_todo, but found that the refcount on the lo
device was already 0 at the time we got to the panic.

Used bcc to check the blocking in netdev_run_todo.  The only places
where we're off cpu there are in the rcu_barrier() and msleep() calls.
That behavior is expected.  The msleep time coincides with the amount of
time we spend waiting for the refcount to reach zero; the rcu_barrier()
wait times are not excessive.

After looking through the list of callbacks that the netdevice notifiers
invoke in this path, it appears that the dst_dev_event is the most
interesting.  The dst_ifdown path places a hold on the loopback_dev as
part of releasing the dev associated with the original dst cache entry.
Most of our notifier callbacks are straight-forward, but this one a)
looks complex, and b) places a hold on the network interface in
question.

I constructed a new bcc script that watches various events in the
liftime of a dst cache entry.  Note that dst_ifdown will take a hold on
the loopback device until the invalidated dst entry gets freed.

[      __dst_free] on DST: ffff883ccabb7900 IF tap1008300eth0 invoked at 1282115677036183
    __dst_free
    rcu_nocb_kthread
    kthread
    ret_from_fork
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/core/dst.c |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

--- a/net/core/dst.c
+++ b/net/core/dst.c
@@ -397,6 +397,20 @@ static int dst_dev_event(struct notifier
 		spin_lock_bh(&dst_garbage.lock);
 		dst = dst_garbage.list;
 		dst_garbage.list = NULL;
+		/* The code in dst_ifdown places a hold on the loopback device.
+		 * If the gc entry processing is set to expire after a lengthy
+		 * interval, this hold can cause netdev_wait_allrefs() to hang
+		 * out and wait for a long time -- until the the loopback
+		 * interface is released.  If we're really unlucky, it'll emit
+		 * pr_emerg messages to console too.  Reset the interval here,
+		 * so dst cleanups occur in a more timely fashion.
+		 */
+		if (dst_garbage.timer_inc > DST_GC_INC) {
+			dst_garbage.timer_inc = DST_GC_INC;
+			dst_garbage.timer_expires = DST_GC_MIN;
+			mod_delayed_work(system_wq, &dst_gc_work,
+					 dst_garbage.timer_expires);
+		}
 		spin_unlock_bh(&dst_garbage.lock);
 
 		if (last)

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