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From: "K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>
To: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG triggers running lsof
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:59:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5310969ec0c67c25ae2eff16f1e904d5@cybsft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x49im9zn6wb.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>




On 2020-11-20 13:51, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> writes:
> 
>> On 11/20/20 11:16 AM, K.R. Foley wrote:
>>> I have found an issue that triggers by running lsof. The problem is
>>> reproducible, but not consistently. I have seen this issue occur on
>>> multiple versions of the kernel (5.0.10, 5.2.8 and now 5.4.77). It
>>> looks like it could be a race condition or the file pointer is being
>>> corrupted. Any pointers on how to track this down? What additional
>>> information can I provide?
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 2 things in general:
>> 
>> a) Can you test with a more recent kernel?
>> 
>> b) Can you reproduce this without loading the proprietary & 
>> out-of-tree
>> kernel modules?  They should never have been loaded after bootup.
>> I.e., don't just unload them -- that could leave something bad behind.
> 
> Heh, the EIP contains part of the name of one of the modules:
> 
>> 
>>> [ 8057.297159] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 31376f63
>                                                                 
> ^^^^^^^^
> 
>>> [ 8057.297219] Modules linked in: ITXico7100Module(O)
>                                          ^^^^

Perhaps this is a dumb question, but how could this happen?

> -Jeff

kr

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-20 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-20 19:16 BUG triggers running lsof K.R. Foley
2020-11-20 19:42 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-11-20 19:51   ` Jeff Moyer
2020-11-20 20:59     ` K.R. Foley [this message]
2020-11-20 21:13       ` Randy Dunlap
2020-11-20 21:28         ` K.R. Foley
2020-11-20 20:56   ` K.R. Foley

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