While testing an OpenStack configuration using VXLANs I saw the following call trace:
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff815fad49>] udp4_lib_lookup_skb+0x49/0x80 RSP: 0018:ffff88103867bc50 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: ffff88103269bf00 RBX: ffff88103269bf00 RCX: 00000000ffffffff RDX: 0000000000004300 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff880f2932e780 RBP: ffff88103867bc60 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000000009001a8c0 R10: 0000000000004400 R11: ffffffff81333a58 R12: ffff880f2932e794 R13: 0000000000000014 R14: 0000000000000014 R15: ffffe8efbfd89ca0 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88103fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000488 CR3: 0000000001c06000 CR4: 00000000001426e0 Stack: ffffffff81576515 ffffffff815733c0 ffff88103867bc98 ffffffff815fcc17 ffff88103269bf00 ffffe8efbfd89ca0 0000000000000014 0000000000000080 ffffe8efbfd89ca0 ffff88103867bcc8 ffffffff815fcf8b ffff880f2932e794 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81576515>] ? skb_checksum+0x35/0x50 [<ffffffff815733c0>] ? skb_push+0x40/0x40 [<ffffffff815fcc17>] udp_gro_receive+0x57/0x130 [<ffffffff815fcf8b>] udp4_gro_receive+0x10b/0x2c0 [<ffffffff81605863>] inet_gro_receive+0x1d3/0x270 [<ffffffff81589e59>] dev_gro_receive+0x269/0x3b0 [<ffffffff8158a1b8>] napi_gro_receive+0x38/0x120 [<ffffffffa0871297>] gro_cell_poll+0x57/0x80 [vxlan] [<ffffffff815899d0>] net_rx_action+0x160/0x380 [<ffffffff816965c7>] __do_softirq+0xd7/0x2c5 [<ffffffff8107d969>] run_ksoftirqd+0x29/0x50 [<ffffffff8109a50f>] smpboot_thread_fn+0x10f/0x160 [<ffffffff8109a400>] ? sort_range+0x30/0x30 [<ffffffff81096da8>] kthread+0xd8/0xf0 [<ffffffff81693c82>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40 [<ffffffff81096cd0>] ? kthread_park+0x60/0x60 I believe the trace is pointing to the call to dev_net(dev) in udp4_lib_lookup_skb. If I am not mistaken I believe it is possible for us to have skb_dst(skb)->dev be NULL. So to resolve that I am adding a check for this case and skipping the assignment if such an event occurs. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <adu...@mirantis.com> --- net/ipv4/udp.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp.c b/net/ipv4/udp.c index f67f52ba4809..ff8d9ff3048b 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/udp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c @@ -613,8 +613,12 @@ struct sock *udp4_lib_lookup_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, __be16 sport, __be16 dport) { const struct iphdr *iph = ip_hdr(skb); - const struct net_device *dev = - skb_dst(skb) ? skb_dst(skb)->dev : skb->dev; + const struct net_device *dev; + + if (skb_dst(skb) && skb_dst(skb)->dev) + dev = skb_dst(skb)->dev; + else + dev = skb->dev; return __udp4_lib_lookup(dev_net(dev), iph->saddr, sport, iph->daddr, dport, inet_iif(skb),