Re: 2.4.19 OOPS [Repost]

[lists@corewars.org]

Hi,

The problem just came back. I got a couple of identical oopses.

They all fail _immediately_ after returning from swap_free().
badblocks -w ran fine on the swap partition, and to my knowlege
I'm not running any applications that might be playing with the disk.
What else could be causing it?

Swap is about 530MB. /tmp is on tmpfs.

Regards,
Sapan


Code: 6e 23 c1 40 64 2b c0 00 02 00 00 34 3d 20 c1 02 00 00 00 59 

Code;  00000000 Before first symbol
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code;  00000000 Before first symbol
   0:   6e                        outsb  %ds:(%esi),(%dx)
Code;  00000001 Before first symbol
   1:   23 c1                     and    %ecx,%eax
Code;  00000003 Before first symbol
   3:   40                        inc    %eax
Code;  00000004 Before first symbol
   4:   64                        fs
Code;  00000005 Before first symbol
   5:   2b c0                     sub    %eax,%eax
Code;  00000007 Before first symbol
   7:   00 02                     add    %al,(%edx)
Code;  00000009 Before first symbol
   9:   00 00                     add    %al,(%eax)
Code;  0000000b Before first symbol
   b:   34 3d                     xor    $0x3d,%al
Code;  0000000d Before first symbol
   d:   20 c1                     and    %al,%cl
Code;  0000000f Before first symbol
   f:   02 00                     add    (%eax),%al
Code;  00000011 Before first symbol
  11:   00 00                     add    %al,(%eax)
Code;  00000013 Before first symbol
  13:   59                        pop    %ecx

00009900
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<00009900>]    Not Tainted
EFLAGS: 00010202
eax: 00000002   ebx: c0316420   ecx: 00000099   edx: d081e000
esi: 00000099   edi: cc94fffc   ebp: cd591500   esp: c834be50
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process ps (pid: 1942, stackpage=c834b000)
Stack: c11f6948 c0121a16 c0316420 00000001 bffffe62 00000000 cd591500 cc99e2a0 
       c0121d5b cd591500 cc99e2a0 bffffe62 cc94fffc 00009900 00000000 c390b600 
       cb4e4000 ffffffea cffbd468 cd591500 bffffe62 c0122adc cd591500 cc99e2a0 
Call Trace:    [<c0121a16>] [<c0121d5b>] [<c0122adc>] [<c0120dd2>] [<c011ac0d>]
  [<c014affa>] [<c014afb0>] [<c014b30e>] [<c0130ab6>] [<c01391be>] [<c01305d7>]
  [<c0108857>]
Code:  Bad EIP value


>>EIP; 00009900 Before first symbol   <=====

>>ebx; c0316420 <swap_info+0/700>
>>edx; d081e000 <_end+104e4dfc/10528dfc>
>>edi; cc94fffc <_end+c616df8/10528dfc>
>>ebp; cd591500 <_end+d2582fc/10528dfc>
>>esp; c834be50 <_end+8012c4c/10528dfc>

Trace; c0121a16 <do_swap_page+86/f0>
Trace; c0121d5b <handle_mm_fault+6b/c0>
Trace; c0122adc <find_extend_vma+1c/b0>
Trace; c0120dd2 <get_user_pages+82/1a0>
Trace; c011ac0d <access_process_vm+11d/160>
Trace; c014affa <proc_pid_cmdline+4a/e0>
Trace; c014afb0 <proc_pid_cmdline+0/e0>
Trace; c014b30e <proc_info_read+4e/110>
Trace; c0130ab6 <sys_read+96/f0>
Trace; c01391be <getname+5e/a0>
Trace; c01305d7 <sys_open+57/80>
Trace; c0108857 <system_call+33/38>


On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:22:23PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:11:55PM +0200, lists@corewars.org wrote:
> > Just in case this had someone wondering, the problem was swap
> > corruption. I did an mkswap on the swap partition, and it doesn't
> > OOPS anymore.
> 
> make sense.
> 
> The reason of the corruption could be from hardware fault to whatever
> buggy application that played with the devices, so unless you can
> reproduce I'd ignore this on the kernel side, at least on 2.4 (kernel
> trusts metadata, the fs does too, kernel assumes if the data is
> corrupted an I/O error has to be generated by the hardware, we can add
> some check to make it more robust but it's not a 2.4 matter).
> 
> Andrea
> -