[Xen-devel] System crash on pskb_expand_head call

[Christopher Thunes <c2thunes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
  I wanted to drop this here and see if anyone had any ideas on where 
this issue may be stemming from. We run a unique set up which involves 
running arptables on bridge devices for our HVM guests. Here is all the 
debug information we currently have,
Kernel BUG at ...ib/xen-3.2.1/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg/net/core/skbuff.c:695
invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 3
Modules linked in: xt_mac tun arptable_filter arp_tables xt_physdev
iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables bridge ipv6 button ac battery nfs
lockd nfs_acl sunrpc sg sr_mod parport_pc parport floppy serio_raw
pcspkr i2c_i801 i2c_core joydev ext3 jbd dm_mirror dm_snapshot dm_mod
sd_mod ide_cd cdrom usbhid usb_storage aacraid ehci_hcd e1000 piix
scsi_mod uhci_hcd usbcore thermal processor fan
Pid: 9699, comm: qemu-dm Tainted: GF     2.6.18.8-xen #1
RIP: e030:[<ffffffff803948e5>]  [<ffffffff803948e5>]
pskb_expand_head+0x2a/0x138RSP: e02b:ffff880007d0fc08  EFLAGS:
00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff880019b6c0c0 RCX: ffff880078365000
RDX: 0000000000000134 RSI: 0000000000000020 RDI: ffff880078365100
RBP: ffff88007f10e000 R08: ffff880078365012 R09: 0000000000000194
R10: ffff88007f10e000 R11: ffffffff8039b349 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff8800789f7e04 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 0000000000000178
FS:  00002ba5be9835f0(0000) GS:ffffffff804d7180(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000
Process qemu-dm (pid: 9699, threadinfo ffff880048626000, task 
ffff880001239080)
Stack:  ffff8800789f7dc0 ffff880019b6c0c0 ffff88007f10e000 ffff880019b6c0c0
 ffff8800789f7e04 ffffffff80394a4b 0000000000000178 ffff880019b6c0c0
 ffff88007f10e000 ffff880019b6c0c0 ffff8800789f7e04 0000000000000002
Call Trace:
 <IRQ> [<ffffffff80394a4b>] __pskb_pull_tail+0x58/0x26e
 [<ffffffff8039b4a3>] dev_queue_xmit+0x15a/0x313
 [<ffffffff8039e9e2>] neigh_update+0x304/0x3d9
 [<ffffffff803a7ccd>] eth_header_cache_update+0x0/0x12
 [<ffffffff803d6cc8>] arp_process+0x579/0x5c2
 [<ffffffff803d674f>] arp_process+0x0/0x5c2
 [<ffffffff803b0b22>] nf_hook_slow+0x58/0xc4
 [<ffffffff803d674f>] arp_process+0x0/0x5c2
 [<ffffffff803d6e17>] arp_rcv+0x106/0x129
 [<ffffffff80398d95>] netif_receive_skb+0x0/0x2eb
 [<ffffffff80398ffb>] netif_receive_skb+0x266/0x2eb
 [<ffffffff88247950>] :bridge:br_pass_frame_up+0x67/0x69
 [<ffffffff88247a18>] :bridge:br_handle_frame_finish+0xc6/0xf8
 [<ffffffff88247bd2>] :bridge:br_handle_frame+0x188/0x1a6
 [<ffffffff80398f5f>] netif_receive_skb+0x1ca/0x2eb
 [<ffffffff8039af67>] process_backlog+0xd0/0x182
 [<ffffffff8039b1e2>] net_rx_action+0xe3/0x24a
 [<ffffffff802356ec>] __do_softirq+0x83/0x117
 [<ffffffff8020b1ac>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
 <EOI> [<ffffffff8020d01f>] do_softirq+0x6a/0xeb
 [<ffffffff8039936e>] netif_rx_ni+0x19/0x1d
 [<ffffffff882702b8>] :tun:tun_chr_writev+0x1d0/0x204
 [<ffffffff88270306>] :tun:tun_chr_write+0x1a/0x1f
 [<ffffffff802803f7>] vfs_write+0xce/0x174
 [<ffffffff802809b5>] sys_write+0x45/0x6e
 [<ffffffff8020a4fc>] system_call+0x68/0x6d
 [<ffffffff8020a494>] system_call+0x0/0x6d

We have been experience really nasty whole system crashes from this on 
multiple machines during the last few weeks and I'm hoping that someone 
may be able to shed some light on this issue. If there is any more 
information you think I may be able to provide just let me know. From 
what I can tell so far it seems to be from the combination of running 
arptables on a bridge device as this traceback is identical for all the 
system we are experiencing this issue on.
Much Thanks,
Christopher Thunes


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