Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1: git-block.patch broke pktcdvd

Jens Axboe
2007-09-14T09:34:18Z

On Fri, Sep 14 2007, Laurent Riffard wrote:
> Le 10.09.2007 22:19, Laurent Riffard a écrit :
> > Le 01.09.2007 06:58, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc4/2.6.23-rc4-mm1/
> > [...]
> >
> > Jens,
> >
> > git-block.patch broke pktcdvd, I've got an Oops while syncing:
> >
> >> [ 713.014888] pktcdvd: Fixed packets, 16 blocks, Mode-1 disc
> >> [ 713.021844] pktcdvd: write speed 2770kB/s
> >> [ 718.401761] pktcdvd: 4595774kB available on disc
> >> [ 721.175644] UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'LinuxUDF', timestamp 2006/10/08 21:17 (1078)
> >> [ 721.213784] mount used greatest stack depth: 460 bytes left
> >> [ 752.634402] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
> >> [ 752.635711] printing eip: c017b69e *pde = 00000000
> >> [ 752.636983] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT
> >> [ 752.638240] last sysfs file: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0d.0/modalias
> >> [ 752.639477] Modules linked in: udf binfmt_misc pktcdvd radeon drm lp nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp850 vfat fat reiser4 lzo_decompress lzo_compress eeprom w83781d hwmon_vid snd_ens1371 gameport snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm sg firewire_ohci firewire_core sr_mod cdrom crc_itu_t snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device snd 8250_pnp i2c_viapro via_agp floppy ohci1394 soundcore 8250 serial_core ata_generic uhci_hcd agpgart ne2k_pci 8390 ieee1394 snd_page_alloc rtc pcspkr via686a usbcore parport_pc parport evdev reiserfs sd_mod pata_via libata scsi_mod dm_mirror dm_mod
> >> [ 752.645759]
> >> [ 752.646990] Pid: 3403, comm: pktcdvd0 Not tainted (2.6.23-rc4-mm1 #50)
> >> [ 752.648256] EIP: 0060:[__bio_add_page+212/355] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
> >> [ 752.649515] EIP is at __bio_add_page+0xd4/0x163
> >> [ 752.650750] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: c26ca400 EDX: 00000000
> >> [ 752.651984] ESI: cba3cf48 EDI: c1174be0 EBP: cb01cef4 ESP: cb01cee4
> >> [ 752.653219] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
> >> [ 752.654446] Process pktcdvd0 (pid: 3403, ti=cb01c000 task=c1b9cdb0 task.ti=cb01c000)
> >> [ 752.654526] Stack: c26ca400 cba3cf48 c1174be0 00000001 cb01cf10 c017b763 00000800 00000800
> >> [ 752.655908] 00000040 cba3cf48 cb06e120 cb01cfd0 e1d94044 00000800 00000004 cb09b8a0
> >> [ 752.657297] c1853ce0 00000000 00000800 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >> [ 752.658695] Call Trace:
> >> [ 752.661126] [show_trace_log_lvl+26/47] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
> >> [ 752.662383] [show_stack_log_lvl+155/163] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9b/0xa3
> >> [ 752.663626] [show_registers+160/482] show_registers+0xa0/0x1e2
> >> [ 752.664868] [die+261/567] die+0x105/0x237
> >> [ 752.666072] [do_page_fault+1127/1349] do_page_fault+0x467/0x545
> >> [ 752.667274] [error_code+106/112] error_code+0x6a/0x70
> >> [ 752.668477] [bio_add_page+54/61] bio_add_page+0x36/0x3d
> >> [ 752.669669] [<e1d94044>] kcdrwd+0x5a5/0x9ba [pktcdvd]
> >> [ 752.670856] [kthread+57/97] kthread+0x39/0x61
> >> [ 752.672024] [kernel_thread_helper+7/16] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> >> [ 752.673197] =======================
> >> [ 752.674336] Code: ba 01 00 00 00 8b 4d f0 8b 46 18 66 3b 81 50 01 00 00 73 da 66 8b 46 1a 66 3b 81 52 01 00 00 73 cd 0f
> >> b7 46 14 6b d8 0c 03 5e 2c <89> 3b 8b 45 08 89 43 04 8b 4d 0c 89 4b 08 8b 45 f0 8b 78 68 85
> >> [ 752.677879] EIP: [__bio_add_page+212/355] __bio_add_page+0xd4/0x163 SS:ESP 0068:cb01cee4
>
> I dig through git-block.patch and the culprit seems to be commit
> c94f1c4ac87862675c8d70941973bc3a69aff5d8 "bio: use memset() in
> bio_init()".
>
> Maybe the real bug is a bad bio initialization in pktcdvd driver,
> which is revealed by this commit ?

At least pktcdvd doesn't expect bio->bi_io_vec[] to be cleared, that's
why it's oopsing now. I'll revert this bit for now, thanks for the
report.

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Jens Axboe