I have also hit on Bug 20292 (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20292) in final 2.6.36. After investigating changes made between 2.6.35.4, which worked, and 2.6.36 which started oopsing, I think the problem was in double freeing of skb caused by change of return value for __pppoe_xmit in case of errors.
As it turned out this might be the cause of random BUG reports throught the kernel, whenever something touched skb. Most common BUG with my use case happened at skb_dequeue:
00000060 <skb_dequeue>:
60: 53 push %ebx
61: 89 c2 mov %eax,%edx
63: 9c pushf
64: 59 pop %ecx
65: fa cli
66: 8b 00 mov (%eax),%eax
68: 39 c2 cmp %eax,%edx
6a: 74 24 je 90 <skb_dequeue+0x30>
6c: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax
6e: 74 1a je 8a <skb_dequeue+0x2a>
70: ff 4a 08 decl 0x8(%edx)
73: 8b 18 mov (%eax),%ebx
75: c7 00 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,(%eax)
7b: 8b 50 04 mov 0x4(%eax),%edx
7e: c7 40 04 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,0x4(%eax)
85: 89 53 04 mov %edx,0x4(%ebx)
88:* 89 1a mov %ebx,(%edx)
8a: 51 push %ecx
8b: 9d popf
8c: 5b pop %ebx
8d: c3 ret
8e: 66 90 xchg %ax,%ax
90: b8 00 00 00 00 mov $0x0,%eax
95: eb f3 jmp 8a <skb_dequeue+0x2a>
97: 89 f6 mov %esi,%esi
99: 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 lea 0x0(%edi,%eiz,1),%edi
This location corresponds to line "next = next->next" from inlined __skb_dequeue(). The only reason BUG could happen here is something overwriting or otherwise corrupting skb list.
Patch that works for me is below. Now I only hope I haven't (re)introduced a memory leak...
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--- linux-2.6.36/drivers/net/pppoe.c 2010-10-20 22:30:22.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.36.toshio/drivers/net/pppoe.c 2010-12-03 13:11:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -924,8 +924,10 @@
/* Copy the data if there is no space for the header or if it's
* read-only.
*/
- if (skb_cow_head(skb, sizeof(*ph) + dev->hard_header_len))
+ if (skb_cow_head(skb, sizeof(*ph) + dev->hard_header_len)) {
+ kfree_skb(skb);
goto abort;
+ }
__skb_push(skb, sizeof(*ph));
skb_reset_network_header(skb);
@@ -947,7 +949,6 @@
return 1;
abort:
- kfree_skb(skb);
return 0;
}
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Andrej Ota.
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