From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: hari krishnan <p.harikrishnan22@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug found in block/scsi_ioctl.c
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 16:53:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130605145313.GC32665@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANk961ZtHzC0cyzGc9WxC9mvqmHpixRKsavuMGMzeuLe+QA5TQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 05 2013, hari krishnan wrote:
> I got a kernel crash, and dump is pointing to "IP: [<ffffffff81260e86>]
> sg_scsi_ioctl+0x166/0x3b0".
>
> Test case: *I was just deleting few NPIV port to which some of LUN's where
> exported, after sometime I was running parted on some devices"*
>
> The crash is in sg_scsi_ioctl of block/scsi_ioctl.c.
> From code and dump it seems sg_scsi_ioctl is allocating request by calling
> blk_get_request and assuming it will never fail, but it will fail if device
> is dead, here in this case some of SCSI devices are dead.
It's a known bug, Joe Lawrence has posted a patch to fix it up that will
be muscled into 3.10.
Can you give it a go?
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg66294.html
--
Jens Axboe
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