From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: linux-2.6.23-mm1 crashed Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:21:44 -0700 Message-ID: <20071014122144.f8e56ed9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <2a382c6e0710141145j51286bd0o8a2eb307f7455cd@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:57615 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752369AbXJNTV6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:21:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2a382c6e0710141145j51286bd0o8a2eb307f7455cd@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Milter Cc: LKML , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:45:47 +0400 "Dave Milter" wrote: > I build linux-2.6.23-mm1 and try to boot it using qemu, > and it crashed with trace like this: > do_page_fault > error_code > lock_acquire > _spin_lock_irqsave > gdth_timeout > run_timer_softirq > __do_softirq > do_softirq > > I have screenshot, but have no idea, is it legal to include it, if I > sent copy to lkml. > config of kernel in attachment, > I apply all three patches from hot-fixes. > The screenshot is here: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/crash.png It would appear that gdth_timeout() is passing a bad pointer into spin_lock_irqsave().