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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [regression] stack overflow in xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:41:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120622164147.GA20617@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120621232414.GD10673@dastard>

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:24:14AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> It may have been - I didn't catch the initial cause of the problem
> in my log because it hard-hung the VM and it wasn't in the
> scrollback buffer on the console. All I saw was a corruption error,
> a shutdown and the stack blowing up.
> 
> Still, I think there is a real problem here - any persistent device
> error on IO submission can cause this problem to occur....

Yes, I was just trying to ask what actually happened as your original
explanation didn't seem to be possible.
I think the patch below should be enough as a minimal fix to avoid the

stack overflow for 3.5. We'll need a much bigger overhaul of the buffer
error handling after that, though.


Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c	2012-06-22 14:20:46.696568355 +0200
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c	2012-06-22 14:21:37.733234717 +0200
@@ -1255,7 +1255,7 @@ xfs_buf_iorequest(
 	 */
 	atomic_set(&bp->b_io_remaining, 1);
 	_xfs_buf_ioapply(bp);
-	_xfs_buf_ioend(bp, 0);
+	_xfs_buf_ioend(bp, 1);
 
 	xfs_buf_rele(bp);
 }

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-22 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-21  9:18 [regression] stack overflow in xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks Dave Chinner
2012-06-21  9:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-06-21  9:29   ` Dave Chinner
2012-06-21 10:06   ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-06-21 16:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-06-21 23:24   ` Dave Chinner
2012-06-22 16:41     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-06-22 23:39       ` Dave Chinner
2012-06-25  9:06         ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-06-26  2:20           ` Dave Chinner
2012-06-26  7:51             ` Christoph Hellwig

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