Re: mount -o loop with truncated dosdisk.img uses 100% cpu and can't be killed

["Steven J. Magnani" <steve@digidescorp.com>]

On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 04:21 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 16:28 +0200, Stevie Trujillo wrote: 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> I was trying to create a bootdisk to update my BIOS, and accidentially
> >> made a 512byte image with only the FreeDOS header in it.
> >> 
> >> ( Linux 3.4.4 )
> >> # mount -o loop dosdisk.img /tmp
> >> ^C^C^C
> >> It uses 100% CPU and doesn't listen to me when I do ^C, kill -9 etc. I
> >> think this means it's stuck in the kernel?
> It looks like the bug of __getblk_slow(). If requested block was beyond
> end of device, __find_get_block() will find buffer_mapped()'s buffer,
> but block >= end_block is unmapped. So, it can be loop.
> 
> The following patch fixes it? If it fix, there are some options to check
> it.
> 
> a) Check it like this patch and warn.
> b) (a), but without warn.
> c) Check it in init_page_buffers() and return -EIO or such
> 
> Well, anyway, Cc to Jens.
> 
> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
> ---
> 
>  fs/buffer.c |    7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff -puN fs/buffer.c~debug fs/buffer.c
> --- tux3fs/fs/buffer.c~debug	2012-07-13 04:10:40.000000000 +0900
> +++ tux3fs-hirofumi/fs/buffer.c	2012-07-13 04:11:50.000000000 +0900
> @@ -1055,6 +1055,13 @@ __getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev,
>  		dump_stack();
>  		return NULL;
>  	}
> +	if (block >= blkdev_max_block(I_BDEV(bdev->bd_inode))) {
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "getblk(): block %llu, end_block %llu\n",
> +		       (unsigned long long)block,
> +		       (unsigned long long)blkdev_max_block(I_BDEV(bdev->bd_inode)));
> +		dump_stack();
> +		return NULL;
> +	}
>  
>  	for (;;) {
>  		struct buffer_head * bh;
> _

This fixes the hang, but I'm not sure dump_stack() is a good idea. I get
almost 100 lines of stack dumps and error messages in my kernel log.
Also, I was a little surprised to see that mount completes successfully.
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