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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: add missing kmem_cache_free() in process_pool_aeb error path
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:43:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <540F749B.6080607@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410265519-25111-1-git-send-email-richard.genoud@gmail.com>

Am 09.09.2014 14:25, schrieb Richard Genoud:
> I ran into this error after a ubiupdatevol, because I forgot to backport
> e9110361a9a4 UBI: fix the volumes tree sorting criteria.
> 
> UBI error: process_pool_aeb: orphaned volume in fastmap pool
> UBI error: ubi_scan_fastmap: Attach by fastmap failed, doing a full scan!
> kmem_cache_destroy ubi_ainf_peb_slab: Slab cache still has objects
> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.14.18-00053-gf05cac8dbf85 #1
> [<c000d298>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c000baa8>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> [<c000baa8>] (show_stack) from [<c01b7a68>] (destroy_ai+0x230/0x244)
> [<c01b7a68>] (destroy_ai) from [<c01b8fd4>] (ubi_attach+0x98/0x1ec)
> [<c01b8fd4>] (ubi_attach) from [<c01ade90>] (ubi_attach_mtd_dev+0x2b8/0x868)
> [<c01ade90>] (ubi_attach_mtd_dev) from [<c038b510>] (ubi_init+0x1dc/0x2ac)
> [<c038b510>] (ubi_init) from [<c0008860>] (do_one_initcall+0x94/0x140)
> [<c0008860>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c037aadc>] (kernel_init_freeable+0xe8/0x1b0)
> [<c037aadc>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c02730ac>] (kernel_init+0x8/0xe4)
> [<c02730ac>] (kernel_init) from [<c00093f0>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24)
> UBI: scanning is finished
> 
> Freeing the cache in the error path fixes the Slab error.
> 
> Tested on at91sam9g35 (3.14.18+fastmap backports)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # >= 3.10

I guess you wrote 3.10 because there is no stable kernel between >= 3.7 and < 3.10?
Patch looks good otherwise.

Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

Thanks,
//richard

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-09 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-09 12:25 [PATCH] UBI: add missing kmem_cache_free() in process_pool_aeb error path Richard Genoud
2014-09-09 21:43 ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2014-09-10  8:06   ` Richard Genoud
2014-09-16 15:21 ` Artem Bityutskiy

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