[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#813116: /usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd: segfault when push_mpls flow action is applied

[Ferenc Wágner]

Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> writes:

> What version of Open vSwitch is this?

The jessie version with the security update:
2.3.0+git20140819-3+deb8u1

I forgot to attach the related syslog excerpt:

Nov 30 23:06:42 vhbl08 kernel: [3400373.344953] traps: handler20[4173] general protection ip:466280 sp:7f203afe34e8 error:0
Nov 30 23:06:42 vhbl08 kernel: [3400373.371561]  in ovs-vswitchd[400000+15e000]
Nov 30 23:06:42 vhbl08 ovs-vswitchd: ovs|00002|daemon_unix(monitor)|ERR|1 crashes: pid 4128 died, killed (Segmentation fault), core dumped, restarting
Nov 30 23:06:42 vhbl08 kernel: [3400373.537643] device vhbond left promiscuous mode
Nov 30 23:06:43 vhbl08 kernel: [3400373.599300] openvswitch: netlink: Key type 62 is out of range max 26
Nov 30 23:06:43 vhbl08 kernel: [3400373.694283] device vhbond entered promiscuous mode
Nov 30 23:06:44 vhbl08 ntpd[19404]: Deleting interface #42 vhbond, fe80::cc07:37ff:fe90:592e#123, interface stats: received=0, sent=0, dropped=0, active_time=2026491 secs
Nov 30 23:06:44 vhbl08 ntpd[19404]: peers refreshed
Nov 30 23:06:44 vhbl08 kernel: [3400375.129006] traps: handler20[13220] general protection ip:466280 sp:7f204afe34e8 error:0
Nov 30 23:06:44 vhbl08 kernel: [3400375.155813]  in ovs-vswitchd[400000+15e000]
Nov 30 23:06:52 vhbl08 ovs-vswitchd: ovs|00004|daemon_unix(monitor)|ERR|2 crashes: pid 13186 died, killed (Segmentation fault), restarting
Nov 30 23:06:52 vhbl08 kernel: [3400383.209719] device vhbond left promiscuous mode
Nov 30 23:06:52 vhbl08 kernel: [3400383.283237] openvswitch: netlink: Key type 62 is out of range max 26
Nov 30 23:06:52 vhbl08 kernel: [3400383.375184] device vhbond entered promiscuous mode
Nov 30 23:06:54 vhbl08 kernel: [3400384.984935] traps: handler21[13309] general protection ip:466280 sp:7f202b7e44e8 error:0
Nov 30 23:06:54 vhbl08 kernel: [3400385.011601]  in ovs-vswitchd[400000+15e000]
Nov 30 23:07:02 vhbl08 ovs-vswitchd: ovs|00006|daemon_unix(monitor)|ERR|3 crashes: pid 13274 died, killed (Segmentation fault), restarting
Nov 30 23:07:02 vhbl08 kernel: [3400393.060805] device vhbond left promiscuous mode
Nov 30 23:07:02 vhbl08 kernel: [3400393.127022] openvswitch: netlink: Key type 62 is out of range max 26
Nov 30 23:07:02 vhbl08 kernel: [3400393.228843] device vhbond entered promiscuous mode
Nov 30 23:07:02 vhbl08 kernel: [3400393.420624] traps: handler21[13491] general protection ip:466280 sp:7f204afe34e8 error:0
Nov 30 23:07:02 vhbl08 kernel: [3400393.447307]  in ovs-vswitchd[400000+15e000]
Nov 30 23:07:12 vhbl08 ovs-vswitchd: ovs|00008|daemon_unix(monitor)|ERR|4 crashes: pid 13459 died, killed (Segmentation fault), restarting
Nov 30 23:07:12 vhbl08 kernel: [3400403.494568] device vhbond left promiscuous mode
Nov 30 23:07:12 vhbl08 kernel: [3400403.558862] openvswitch: netlink: Key type 62 is out of range max 26
Nov 30 23:07:13 vhbl08 kernel: [3400403.609840] traps: handler4[13941] general protection ip:466280 sp:7f2053fe54e8 error:0
Nov 30 23:07:13 vhbl08 kernel: [3400403.636252]  in ovs-vswitchd[400000+15e000]
Nov 30 23:07:13 vhbl08 ovs-vswitchd: ovs|00009|daemon_unix(monitor)|EMER|fork child died before signaling startup (killed (Segmentation fault))

At first I thought that
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvswitch/+bug/1336555 might
be related, but the patch mentioned there is already included in 2.3.
-- 
Regards,
Feri