Sparc64 U60: no iptables

[Sébastien Bernard <seb@frankengul.org>]

Sébastien Bernard a écrit :

> Sébastien Bernard wrote:
>
> > Hi there.
> >
> > Being the owner of a two-way U60, I've been happy with it until 
> > 2.6.11.6.
> >
> > The machine is a 2x300Mhz Uii with 1536Mb of memory and 2 scsi 
> > internal disk.
> >
> > Since 2.6.12, I'm unfortunately unable to use it as gateway box, 
> > since the installation of iptables
> > cause a OOPS in the ipt_mangle.
> >
> > I'm unable to send you the trace now because once it happened, it is 
> > not written on the files, only on the console.
> >
> > This oops happens from the 2.6.12.x to the 2.6.13.x - not tried the 
> > 2.6.14-rc.
> > It is related to the iptables subsystem.
> > It also happen with the official debian kernel (2.6.12-1-smp).
> >
> > I'll try this week-end to setup early 2.6.12-rcx to check when the 
> > problem occured.
> >
> > I will post the oops as soon as I write it down.
> > How can I get the copy of the trace without handwriting ?
> > What is the information relevant in the oops ?  (register + stack 
> > trace ?)
> >
> >    Seb
> Ok, I reproduced the problem on the 2.6.12-rc1.
> Here's the backtrace :
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference.
>
> nmbd: Ooops[#1]
>
> ip_do_table + 0x21c/0x380
> ip_do_table + 0x44/0x380
> ip_local_hook + 0x84/0x120
> nf_iterate + 0x64/0xc0
> nf_hook_slow + 0x4c/0x120
> ip_push_pending_frames + 0x2d8/0x4c0
> udp_push_pending_frames + 0x118/0x260
> udp_sendmsg + 0x398/0x6c0
> inet_sendmsg + 0x30/0x60
> sock_sendmsg + 0xc8/0x100
I found the culprit for my oops.
In the iptables, NR_CPUS is set to 4 to get the 2 cpus recognized properly.
The culprit patch substitute the NR_CPUS by the num_possible_cpus() macro.
With this patch applied, inserting the iptables modules gets you instant 
oops...
With it reverted, everything works as normal.
I suspect that NR_CPUS == 4 and num_possible_cpus() == 2.

Can one explain me why this patch works on other archs, and oops on the 
sparc64 smp ?
Can one explain why I'm the only one to have this problem ?

   Seb

Here is the patch I reverted :
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c    2005-03-17 17:35:05 -08:00
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c    2005-03-17 17:35:05 -08:00
@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@
       }

       /* And one copy for every other CPU */
-       for (i = 1; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {
+       for (i = 1; i < num_possible_cpus(); i++) {
               memcpy(newinfo->entries + SMP_ALIGN(newinfo->size)*i,
                      newinfo->entries,
                      SMP_ALIGN(newinfo->size));
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@
               struct ipt_entry *table_base;
               unsigned int i;

-               for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {
+               for (i = 0; i < num_possible_cpus(); i++) {
                       table_base =
                               (void *)newinfo->entries
                               + TABLE_OFFSET(newinfo, i);
@@ -992,7 +992,7 @@
       unsigned int cpu;
       unsigned int i;

-       for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; cpu++) {
+       for (cpu = 0; cpu < num_possible_cpus(); cpu++) {
               i = 0;
               IPT_ENTRY_ITERATE(t->entries + TABLE_OFFSET(t, cpu),
                                 t->size,
@@ -1130,7 +1130,7 @@
               return -ENOMEM;

       newinfo = vmalloc(sizeof(struct ipt_table_info)
-                         + SMP_ALIGN(tmp.size) * NR_CPUS);
+                         + SMP_ALIGN(tmp.size) * num_possible_cpus());
       if (!newinfo)
               return -ENOMEM;

@@ -1460,7 +1460,7 @@
               = { 0, 0, 0, { 0 }, { 0 }, { } };

       newinfo = vmalloc(sizeof(struct ipt_table_info)
-                         + SMP_ALIGN(repl->size) * NR_CPUS);
+                         + SMP_ALIGN(repl->size) * num_possible_cpus());
       if (!newinfo)
               return -ENOMEM;

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