[dpdk-users] segmention fault while accessing mbuf

[Alex Kiselev]

On 2020-06-07 15:16, Cliff Burdick wrote:
> That shouldn't matter. The mbuf size is allocated when you create the
> mempool, and data_len/pkt_len are just to specify the size of the
> total packet and each segment. The underlying storage size is still
> the same.

It does matter. I've done some tests and after
sending a few mbufs with data_len/pkt_len bigger than the size
of mbuf's underlying buffer the app stops sending/receiving packets.
The PMD apparently goes beyong the mbuf's buffer, that's why
I sill think that my question about the impact of using incorrect
data_len/pkt is valid.

> 
> Have you checked to see if it's potentially a hugepage issue?

Please, explain.

The app had been working two monghts before the crush
and the load was 3-4 gbit/s, so no, I don't think that
something is wrong with hugepages on that machine.


> 
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 02:59 Alex Kiselev <alex at therouter.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 2020-06-07 04:41, Cliff Burdick wrote:
>>> I can't tell from your code, but you assigned nb_rx to the number
>> of
>>> packets received, but then used vec_size, which might be larger.
>> Does
>>> this happen if you use nb_rx in your loops?
>> 
>> No, this doesn't happen.
>> I just skip the part of the code that translates nb_rx to vec_size,
>> since that code is double checked.
>> 
>> My actual question now is about possible impact of using
>> incorrect values of mbuf's pkt_len and data_len fields.
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:59 AM Alex Kiselev <alex at therouter.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> 1 июня 2020 г., в 19:17, Stephen Hemminger
>>>> <stephen at networkplumber.org> написал(а):
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 15:24:25 +0200
>>>>> Alex Kiselev <alex at therouter.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I've got a segmentation fault error in my data plane path.
>>>>>> I am pretty sure the code where the segfault happened is ok,
>>>>>> so my guess is that I somehow received a corrupted mbuf.
>>>>>> How could I troubleshoot this? Is there any way?
>>>>>> Is it possible that other threads of the application
>>>>>> corrupted that mbuf?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I would really appriciate any advice.
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> DPDK 18.11.3
>>>>>> NIC: 82599ES
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Code:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> nb_rx = rte_eth_rx_burst(port_id, queue_id, pkts_burst,
>>>>>> MAX_PKT_BURST);
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> for (i=0; i < vec_size; i++) {
>>>>>> rte_prefetch0(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(m_v[i], void *));
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> for (i=0; i < vec_size; i++) {
>>>>>> m = m_v[i];
>>>>>> eth_hdr = rte_pktmbuf_mtod(m, struct ether_hdr *);
>>>>>> eth_type = rte_be_to_cpu_16(eth_hdr->ether_type);
>>>> <---
>>>>>> Segmentation fault
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> #0  rte_arch_bswap16 (_x=<error reading variable: Cannot access
>>>> memory
>>>>>> at address 0x4d80000000053010>)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Build with as many of the debug options turned on in the DPDK
>>>> config,
>>>>> and build with EXTRA_CFLAGS of -g.
>>>> 
>>>> Could using an incorrect (a very big one) value of mbuf pkt_len
>> and
>>>> data_len while transmitting cause mbuf corruption and following
>>>> segmentation fault on rx?