Very scary host reboot issue
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Please do so. Gut feeling is something related to the MTU/wireguard, but hard to suspect anything specific at the moment
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Guys, I might be onto something.
I started having this issue in September this year, right after switching to a new laptop with Windows 11.
I also have VMWare Player and VirtualBox installed on my laptop.
I have a weird issue often with WG not being able to bring up the tunnel with an error message. I googled the error and it was something related to the other virtual network interfaces VirtualBox and VMWare player installs.
I think the issue could be related to Windows 11 and my other Type 2 Virtualization platforms.
I did try on my other laptop running Windows 10 and having VirtualBox installed and the host reboot isn't triggered.
Could someone help replicate this specific combo that I have?
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I just triggered the reboot with my setup I detailed above. I started transferring 26 GB worth of video files through my tunnel. My host restarted. I continued the transfer and now strangely somehow my tunnel is capped at 100 Mb/s.
During the transfer when the host reboot happened I was having 300 Mb/s.
So strange behavior.
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I continued with the transfer capped at 100 Mb/s (capped by WireGuard most probably) and after ~8 GB transferred, suddenly my tunnel collapsed. After short while, less than 2 minutes it came back up while no host reboot happened. WireGuard crashed somehow but didn't cause the Dom0 crash.
Some other detail that might be unrelated: my PPPoE connection to my ISP has MTU 1492. WireGuard connection also has MTU 1492. Is this relevant in any way?
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Thanks for the info. Hard to tell if it's related or not, but we take any info you can provide on your setup
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@olivierlambert Just produced another reboot. I'm closing in on the way to replicate this issue.
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That will be helpful for everyone having the issue, thanks for contributing with your time and efforts!
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@olivierlambert It's the least I can do. I really like XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra. I have around 15 clients with XCP-ng stacks in production. I run an MSP company. You understand this issue scares me a lot. Right now I'm randomly rebooting my own production server where a bunch of VM and TrueNAS backups land. I am fully motivated to mitigate this issue.
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I do have an update. I tried it from a Windows 10 VM. Same issue. I uninstalled VMware Player on the Windows 10 VM just to be sure. The reboot happened.
I tried copying a the same file from my fileserver to my laptop and I couldn't cause the reboot. It only happens when I transfer files from my laptop to my server. So only sent traffic from the laptop's perspective to my OPNsense VM produces the reboot.
I checked, TX checksumming is disabled on my OPNsense VM VIFs.
I can confirm 100% I didn't have this issue before September this year. Maybe it is related to WireGuard version on server or client side.
OPNsense version 23.7.2
wireguard-kmod 0.0.20220615_1
wireguard-tools 1.0.20210914_1
OPNsense has xn0 for WAN and xn1 for LANOn my other host that also produced the reboot the hardware setup is different. The metal itself is different but more notably WAN is connected through a Dualport Intel NIC via PCIe Passthrough. Host reboot happened while copying an ISO through the WG tunnel to the host local ISO repository. So potentially the LAN xn0 produced the vSwitch crash. It couldn't happen on the WAN interface.
In summary: I managed to reproduce the issue 4 times within 2 hours. It should be replicable. Maybe I'll spin up a completely new setup to try to replicate this outside my current production host.
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@darabontors What ethernet card is in use on your crashing system?
If it's using the first ethernet then
ethtool -i eth0should show enough info. -
@Andrew
eth4 is LAN:
driver: igb
version: 5.3.5.20
firmware-version: 1.67, 0x80000fc9, 19.5.12
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:0a:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: noeth5 is WAN:
driver: igb
version: 5.3.5.20
firmware-version: 1.67, 0x80000fc9, 19.5.12
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:0a:00.1
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
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It is the DELL X540 2 x 10 GbE and 2 x 1 GbE daughter board in a DELL R720.
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Could be a statistical bias, but for now, absolutely ALL the reports we had came from Dell PowerEdge servers (between x20 and x30 series). Most of the time, it was with Intel cards, but I'm not 100% sure it's due to that since the crash logs indicates that OVS crashed before the packet got even in the NIC. But it can be an "answer" packet to a specific crafted incoming packet that could cause this too
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@olivierlambert I can confirm 100% that a workstation DELL that I use at one of my clients did the same thing.
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@darabontors Same network interface type? I just setup an HP with the same ethernet interface (igb driver) for testing.
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@darabontors said in Very scary host reboot issue:
Some other detail that might be unrelated: my PPPoE connection to my ISP has MTU 1492. WireGuard connection also has MTU 1492. Is this relevant in any way?
I'm not into firewall/tunneling stuff but shouldn't the WireGuard MTU be lower than the PPPoE one in order to fit the WG protocol overhead? I read that the
default=1420andminimum=1280. I'd first reset the WG MTU to default and also test lower values within this range if the crash still persists.Regardless the tests, indeed there's a bug somewhere because a malformed packet/frame should be handled and not triggering a crash.
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@tuxen said in Very scary host reboot issue:
Regardless the tests, indeed there's a bug somewhere because a malformed packet/frame should be handled and not triggering a crash.
Obviously, but it might be a clue on how to trigger the bug
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@tuxen You might be on to something. I need to clarify something. I am positive this issue is related to the Windows WireGuard client. On the same host, same OPNsense VM I have 10+ SitetoSite Wireguard connections configured moving 100+ GB daily and the host never reboots. I can only trigger it from a Windows WG connection.
How do I verify MTU size for the WG connection in Windows 11? I cannot find it for the life of me...
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I found the MTU parameter. This time it was 1420 on both OPNsense WG interface and in Windows (client side). I was happy for about 5 minutes as I wasn't able to reproduce the crash, but then it happened again. My "favorite" way to trigger it is by pausing the file transfer, waiting for a couple of minutes and then resuming it. The transfer's MB/s jumps up like crazy in Windows, then freezes until it gets in sync with the real progress of the transfer. After two tries of pausing and resuming, the crash happened.
@olivierlambert I use this setup on my infrastructure and my clients since at least 4 years. I never experienced this issue until as recent as September this year. You guys saw this issue ~6 months ago. Isn't there a way to backtrack any recent updates to Openswitch? I know it might be some updates on the FreeBSD side that made this openswitch bug surface just in recent times... I know there was little to no development on the WireGuard side of things this year.
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First report I heard was in April of this year, on Intel
ixgbedriver on a R630 from someone using OPNsense in a VM + wireguard. I don't remember any OVS change that could explain this.We had the crash around in May/June IIRC, on a Dell 430 (or 420) but on a
e1000eIntel driver.But after inspection, we've seen that the issue was happening inside OVS, before entering the NIC, so it might not be related to the hardware at all. Maybe the hardware "helps" to get the packet or instruction crashing OVS. But to me, there's more chances it's related to an update or something in the FreeBSD PV driver inside OPNsense or Pfsense. That would be interesting to see if something moves in that area in both projects in 2023.
