Re: Regression in next with ext4 oops

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> [161004 12:17]:
> Hi,
> 
> * Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> [161004 08:00]:
> > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 10:02:31AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:00:41AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > > Never seen this but I suspect it is a fallout from Al's directory locking
> > > > changes. In particular ext4_htree_fill_tree() builds rb-tree of found
> > > > directory entries in file->private_data (and generally modifies the
> > > > structure stored there) but after Al's changes we don't have exclusive
> > > > access to struct file if I'm right so if two processes end up calling
> > > > getdents() for the same 'struct file' we are doomed.
> > > 
> > > I haven't seen it either, and I've been doing a lot of testing on the
> > > ext4 test branch.  So I'm guessing Tony has the only reliable repro
> > > for the problem at the moment.  That being said, it shouldn't be that
> > > hard to create a test case for this and add it to xfstests.
> > > 
> > > I'm pretty sure Jan is right about this, though, but it would be great
> > > to a get a quick confirmation from Tony if at all possible.
> > 
> > Jan is wrong - we do have per-struct-file serialization for getdents()
> > et.al.  It might be a race between getdents() on *different* struct
> > file for the same directory, but ->private_data is not a problem.
> 
> OK found the guilty person after git bisect and that's me.
> 
> Git bisect points to commit d776fc86b82f ("wlcore: sdio: Populate config
> firmware data"), so adding Kalle to Cc.
> 
> Looks like update-initramfs does rmmod of wlcore_sdio and that triggers
> some issue with the wlcore driver or with SDIO/MMC. Or maybe it's a memory
> corruption issue. I don't know yet exactly what's going on here yet but
> I plan to find out after some lunch.

And the patch below seems to fix the issue as the driver is now
using devm_kzalloc. Will do some more testing and then will post
a proper patch. The same issue might be there for SPI glue also.

Regards,

Tony

8< -----------------
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/sdio.c
@@ -391,7 +391,6 @@ static void wl1271_remove(struct sdio_func *func)
 	pm_runtime_get_noresume(&func->dev);
 
 	platform_device_unregister(glue->core);
-	kfree(glue);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM