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From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: Paul Taysom <taysom-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Paul Taysom <taysom-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	Mandeep Baines <msb-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olofj-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>,
	Greg KH <greg-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe-tSWWG44O7X1aa/9Udqfwiw@public.gmane.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-usb-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	Alexander Viro
	<viro-RmSDqhL/yNMiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Fix mod_timer crash when removing USB sticks
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:42:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+5PVA7Yffs3-qdq6pSqDKLLngU7kBsdE92e31NnAM0=wrwp4w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326402935-31002-1-git-send-email-taysom-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Paul Taysom <taysom-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> From: Paul Taysom <taysom-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
>
> A USB stick with a ext file system on it, would occasionally crash
> when the stick was pulled.
>
> The problem was a timer was being set on the Backing Device Interface,
> bdi, after the USB device had been removed and the bdi had been
> unregistered. The bdi would then be later reinitialized by zeroing
> the timer without removing from the timer from the timer queue.
> This would eventually result in a kernel crash (NULL ptr dereference).

What backtrace did you see when it crashed?  There have been a number of
reports where sd_revalidate_disk is at the top of the backtrace and this sounds
like it might be related.

josh
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-13  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-12 21:15 [PATCH] fs: Fix mod_timer crash when removing USB sticks Paul Taysom
2012-01-12 21:38 ` Greg KH
2012-01-12 21:53   ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2012-01-12 22:02     ` Greg KH
     [not found]     ` <20120112215331.GB18166-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-12 22:11       ` Theodore Tso
     [not found]     ` <CAGagf4dk4KsZSkaWTO9Yegi=_wRJsYBPgfyks1z=wMZJV8gX0w@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-12 22:35       ` Mandeep Singh Baines
     [not found]         ` <20120112223544.GC18166-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-12 23:23           ` Andrew Morton
     [not found] ` <1326402935-31002-1-git-send-email-taysom-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-13  5:42   ` Josh Boyer [this message]
     [not found]     ` <CA+5PVA7Yffs3-qdq6pSqDKLLngU7kBsdE92e31NnAM0=wrwp4w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-01-13 15:39       ` Paul Taysom
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-01-12 21:57 Paul Taysom
2012-03-16 17:36 ` Greg KH
2012-03-16 19:29   ` Paul Taysom
2012-03-16 19:43     ` Greg KH
2012-03-16 21:10       ` Theodore Tso
2012-03-17  0:06         ` Greg KH
2012-03-17 14:21         ` Alan Stern
2012-03-18  3:44           ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-18 20:23             ` Alan Stern
2012-03-18 22:25               ` Mandeep Singh Baines
     [not found]                 ` <CACBanvpzOdC4ns-pg1f92ptxrCJ2O=_oJhpKFD4NOB0hyF_+aA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-03-20  0:24                   ` Paul Taysom
2012-03-20  2:02                     ` Alan Stern
2012-03-22 16:15                       ` Paul Taysom
2012-01-12 19:57 Paul Taysom
2012-01-12 20:15 ` Greg KH
2012-01-13 11:28 ` Sergei Shtylyov

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