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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Stuart MENEFY <stuart.menefy@st.com>
Cc: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Help debugging a use after free
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:17:02 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090419081702.GD16929@discord.disaster> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E8A081.7020200@st.com>

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 04:30:09PM +0100, Stuart MENEFY wrote:
> > If you can instrument actually free that is causing the problem it
> > would be good to print out the
> > actually pid doing the free and as many return addresses that you can,
> > so we can get an
> > idea of the actual call chain.
> 
> The free is coming from the xfssyncd thread, the back trace looks like:
> 
> [<8418d0e2>] xfs_idestroy+0x22/0x100
> [<8418a1b0>] xfs_ireclaim+0x50/0x80
> [<841ad7f2>] xfs_finish_reclaim+0x32/0x1c0
> [<841ada30>] xfs_finish_reclaim_all+0xb0/0x100
> [<8418a780>] xfs_ilock_nowait+0x0/0x160
> [<841a9df2>] xfs_syncsub+0x52/0x360
> [<84335108>] schedule_timeout+0x48/0x100
> [<841ab684>] xfs_sync+0x24/0x40
> [<841e0ce0>] list_add+0x0/0x20
> [<841c041c>] vfs_sync+0x1c/0x40
> [<841bf37c>] vfs_sync_worker+0x1c/0x60
> [<841bf6b6>] xfssyncd+0xb6/0x140
> [<8402f0dc>] kthread+0x3c/0x80
> [<84012440>] complete+0x0/0x60
> [<841bf600>] xfssyncd+0x0/0x140
> [<8402f060>] kthread_should_stop+0x0/0x20
> [<84003984>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x20
> [<8402f0a0>] kthread+0x0/0x80
> [<84003980>] kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x20

There were some use-after-free fixes in .27 timeframe to the inode
reclaim code. Can you reeetest with a more recent kernel?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
dgc@evostor.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-19  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-13 17:42 Help debugging a use after free Stuart MENEFY
2009-04-14 19:10 ` Russell Cattelan
2009-04-17 15:30   ` Stuart MENEFY
2009-04-19  8:17     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2009-04-23 16:09       ` Stuart MENEFY
2009-04-23 16:24         ` Russell Cattelan
2009-04-23 18:37           ` Stuart MENEFY
2009-04-23 21:35             ` Russell Cattelan

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