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From: Jarkko Lavinen <jlavi@iki.fi>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: complete_and_exit() problem
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:58:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010903155842.A19349@kosh.hut.fi> (raw)

The garbage collection thread crashes when I unmount JFFS2. The filesystem
is empry and I only mount it and then unmount it. I am using kernel 
2.4.8ac12 with rmk1 patch for ARM cpu.

I traced the exeution to complete_and_exit(), then to complete(), then 
to __wake_up_common(). In __wake_up_common() there is a loop

        list_for_each(tmp,&q->task_list) {
                unsigned int state;
                wait_queue_t *curr = list_entry(tmp, wait_queue_t, task_list);

                CHECK_MAGIC(curr->__magic);
                p = curr->task;
                state = p->state;
                if (state & mode) {
                        WQ_NOTE_WAKER(curr);
                        if (try_to_wake_up(p, sync) && (curr->flags&WQ_FLAG_EXCL
USIVE) && !--nr_exclusive)
                                break;
                }
        }

When entering the loop, the list q->task_list contains no task.
q->task_list.next and q->task_lis.prev are null pointers. 
list_for_each() checks the end of list by comparing against the 
list head (q->task_list), not NULL.

I tried replacing 

-       if (comp)
+	if (comp && comp->wait.task_list.next)

in complete_and_exit(). I don't know if it is the right way to do it,
but at least the garbage gollection thread stopped crashing.

Jarkko Lavinen

             reply	other threads:[~2001-09-03 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-03 12:58 Jarkko Lavinen [this message]
2001-09-04  8:25 ` complete_and_exit() problem David Woodhouse

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