[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Panic in ipt_do_table with 2.6.16.13-xen
Keir Fraser wrote: On 22 May 2006, at 15:43, Patrick McHardy wrote:Maybe this helps: there is not too much the Xen code could be doing wrong here. If I read your crash correctly it happend in the FORWARD chain, which could mean that the outgoing device (probably the Xen virtual network driver) has some bugs, but iptables really only cares about the names at this point, which practically can't be bogus. The only other thing I can imagine is that something is wrong with the per-CPU copy of the ruleset, i.e. either smp_processor_id is returning garbage or for_each_possible_cpu misses a CPU during initialization. I have no idea if Xen really does touch this code, but other than that I don't really see what it could break.Having looked at disassembly, the fault happens when accessing e->ip.invflags in ip_packet_match() inlined inside ipt_do_table().e = private->entries[smp_processor_id()] + private->hook_entry[NF_IP_FORWARD]smp_processor_id() should be 0 (since the oops appears to occur on cpu0) and presumably all the ipt_entry structures are static once set up. Since this crash happens on a common path in ipt_do_table(), and since it happens only after the system has been up a while (I believe?), it rather looks as though something has either corrupted a pointer or unmapped memory from under iptables' feet. As the concerned user, what does this mean to me? It will only affect SMP systems? It is a bug in Xen or netfilter? I'd just like to understand what is going on. Thanks, Matt _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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