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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Cc: "Moger, Babu" <Babu.Moger@netapp.com>,
	Linux SCSI Mailing list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] scsi_dh: check queuedata pointer before	proceeding further
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:25:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA8F966.6050008@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47D23AD8469A2B448F33C24BD7A39BD91040F25B@RTPMVEXC1-PRD.hq.netapp.com>

On 10/26/2011 08:29 PM, Moger, Babu wrote:
> This patch validates sdev pointer in scsi_dh_activate before proceeding further.
> 
> Without this check we might see the panic as below. I have seen this
> panic multiple times..
> 
> Call trace:
> 
>  #0 [ffff88007d647b50] machine_kexec at ffffffff81020902
>  #1 [ffff88007d647ba0] crash_kexec at ffffffff810875b0
>  #2 [ffff88007d647c70] oops_end at ffffffff8139c650
>  #3 [ffff88007d647c90] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8102dd15
>  #4 [ffff88007d647d50] page_fault at ffffffff8139b8cf
>     [exception RIP: scsi_dh_activate+0x82]
>     RIP: ffffffffa0041922  RSP: ffff88007d647e00  RFLAGS: 00010046
>     RAX: 0000000000000000  RBX: 0000000000000000  RCX: 00000000000093c5
>     RDX: 00000000000093c5  RSI: ffffffffa02e6640  RDI: ffff88007cc88988
>     RBP: 000000000000000f   R8: ffff88007d646000   R9: 0000000000000000
>     R10: ffff880082293790  R11: 00000000ffffffff  R12: ffff88007cc88988
>     R13: 0000000000000000  R14: 0000000000000286  R15: ffff880037b845e0
>     ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0000
>  #5 [ffff88007d647e38] run_workqueue at ffffffff81060268
>  #6 [ffff88007d647e78] worker_thread at ffffffff81060386
>  #7 [ffff88007d647ee8] kthread at ffffffff81064436
>  #8 [ffff88007d647f48] kernel_thread at ffffffff81003fba
> 
> Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-27  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-26 18:29 [PATCH] scsi_dh: check queuedata pointer before proceeding further Moger, Babu
2011-10-27  6:25 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]

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