Re: dcache_readdir NULL inode oops

[Jan Glauber <Jan.Glauber@cavium.com>]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 03:58:56PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 02:37:51PM +0000, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > I'm seeing the following oops reproducible with upstream kernel on arm64
> > (ThunderX2):
> 
> [...]
> 
> > It happens after 1-3 hours of running 'stress-ng --dev 128'. This testcase
> > does a scandir of /dev and then calls random stuff like ioctl, lseek,
> > open/close etc. on the entries. I assume no files are deleted under /dev
> > during the testcase.
> >
> > The NULL pointer is the inode pointer of next. The next dentry->d_flags is
> > DCACHE_RCUACCESS when this happens.
> >
> > Any hints on how to further debug this?
> 
> Can you reproduce the issue with vanilla -rc1 and do you have a "known good"
> kernel?

I can try out -rc1, but IIRC this wasn't bisectible as the bug was present at
least back to 4.14. I need to double check that as there were other issues
that are resolved now so I may confuse things here. I've defintely seen
the same bug with 4.18.

Unfortunately I lost access to the machine as our data center seems to be
moving currently so it might take some days until I can try -rc1.

thanks,
Jan