Beschorner Daniel wrote:
>>I managed to reproduce a crash with ipcomp, will try to fix it later.
> 
> 
> Yes, I can confirm this.
> After disabling IPComp the crashes went away.


The crash happens in xfrm_bundle_ok when walking the bundle upwards
following xfrm_dst->u.next. The loop should be stopped when
xfrm_dst->u.next == first (the topmost xfrm_dst), but it points to
NULL instead. I'm pretty sure the attached patch is responsible,
it breaks XFRM's assumption that dst->next and xfrm_dst->u.next are
the same pointer and xfrm_dst now shares the next pointer with
rcu_head.next in struct dst_entry.

Eric, could you look into this please?
[NET]: Reorder fields of struct dst_entry

This last patch (but not least :) ) finally moves the next pointer at
the end of struct dst_entry. This permits to perform route cache
lookups with a minimal cost of one cache line per entry, instead of
two.

Both 32bits and 64bits platforms benefit from this new layout.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

---
commit 1e19e02ca0c5e33ea73a25127dbe6c3b8fcaac4b
tree 23afba2945a9e09b137b094a868ea176c1e1c800
parent 0c195c3fc4e95a06b0c0017506f074c94af99c35
author Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:26:55 -0800
committer David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:20:45 -0800

 include/net/dst.h |   20 ++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/dst.h b/include/net/dst.h
index 5d62342..e12a8ce 100644
--- a/include/net/dst.h
+++ b/include/net/dst.h
@@ -37,14 +37,7 @@ struct sk_buff;
 
 struct dst_entry
 {
-       union {
-               struct dst_entry *next;
-               struct rtable    *rt_next;
-               struct rt6_info   *rt6_next;
-               struct dn_route  *dn_next;
-       };
-       atomic_t                __refcnt;       /* client references    */
-       int                     __use;
+       struct rcu_head         rcu_head;
        struct dst_entry        *child;
        struct net_device       *dev;
        short                   error;
@@ -55,7 +48,6 @@ struct dst_entry
 #define DST_NOPOLICY           4
 #define DST_NOHASH             8
 #define DST_BALANCED            0x10
-       unsigned long           lastuse;
        unsigned long           expires;
 
        unsigned short          header_len;     /* more space at head required 
*/
@@ -80,8 +72,16 @@ struct dst_entry
 #endif
 
        struct  dst_ops         *ops;
-       struct rcu_head         rcu_head;
                
+       unsigned long           lastuse;
+       atomic_t                __refcnt;       /* client references    */
+       int                     __use;
+       union {
+               struct dst_entry *next;
+               struct rtable    *rt_next;
+               struct rt6_info   *rt6_next;
+               struct dn_route  *dn_next;
+       };
        char                    info[0];
 };
 

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