Issue

• Customer is seeing a list_del() in ipoib_cm_tx_handler() cause a GPF.
• It appears like we can delete an entry from the neigh list, and then before RCU destorys it, something else can grab a reference to it.
• Maybe it's not really "corruption," but rather list poisoning nixing something that should be allowed.
• It happens subsequent to the patch in 358.7.1 on both PPC and x86_64.
• Thus even though it looks quite similar, it is different than Red Hat Bug 913645.
• The discussions in the following threads seem related to this issue:
  • Subject : list corruption in IPOIB
    • http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org/msg15335.html
    • http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org/msg15342.html
• Customer was monitoring that thread but it seems to have petered out and they haven't found any places where the discussion related to this issue has come up again.
• Here's the panic the customer is experiencing:

  #5 [ffff8802338c3c70] general_protection at ffffffff815108c5
     [exception RIP: list_del+16]
     RIP: ffffffff81289020  RSP: ffff8802338c3d20  RFLAGS: 00010082
     RAX: dead000000200200  RBX: ffff880433e60c88  RCX: 0000000000009e6c
     RDX: 0000000000000246  RSI: ffff8806012ca298  RDI: ffff880433e60c88
     RBP: ffff8802338c3d30   R8: ffff8806012ca2e8   R9: 00000000ffffffff
     R10: 0000000000000001  R11: 0000000000000000  R12: ffff8804346b2020
     R13: ffff88032a3e7540  R14: ffff8804346b26e0  R15: 0000000000000246
     ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0000
  #6 [ffff8802338c3d38] ipoib_cm_tx_handler at ffffffffa066fe0a [ib_ipoib]
  #7 [ffff8802338c3d98] cm_process_work at ffffffffa05149a7 [ib_cm]
  #8 [ffff8802338c3de8] cm_work_handler at ffffffffa05161aa [ib_cm]
  #9 [ffff8802338c3e38] worker_thread at ffffffff81090e10
 #10 [ffff8802338c3ee8] kthread at ffffffff81096c66
 #11 [ffff8802338c3f48] kernel_thread at ffffffff8100c0ca
 Is the x86 equivalent to what we saw on ppc64.
 Here's the other way it happens:
 #5 [ffff880028223d50] general_protection at ffffffff81510e15
     [exception RIP: list_del+16]
     RIP: ffffffff81289220  RSP: ffff880028223e08  RFLAGS: 00010092
     RAX: dead000000200200  RBX: ffff88032d3b8a08  RCX: 00000000000072da
     RDX: 0000000000000246  RSI: 0000000000000001  RDI: ffff88032d3b8a08
     RBP: ffff880028223e18   R8: 0000000000000000   R9: 0000000000000001
     R10: ffff880324abd000  R11: ffff880324174800  R12: ffff88032d3b8dc0
     R13: ffff880339406340  R14: 0000000000000246  R15: ffff8803394066e0
     ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
  #6 [ffff880028223e20] ipoib_cm_handle_tx_wc at ffffffffa055b4a2 [ib_ipoib]
  #7 [ffff880028223e80] ipoib_poll at ffffffffa0554e74 [ib_ipoib]
  #8 [ffff880028223ee0] net_rx_action at ffffffff8144d473
  #9 [ffff880028223f40] __do_softirq at ffffffff81076fa1