Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1

Kay Sievers
2007-11-15T02:37:47Z

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 09:01 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2007 5:27 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 20:19 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > >
> > > > Could it be an init-order problem, where something tries to use the
> > > > block subsystem? Before it is initialized with:
> > > > block/genhd.c :: subsys_initcall(genhd_device_init);
> > > > If that's the case, we have an old bug that nobody noticed with static
> > > > structures, which are zeroed that time, but definitely not properly
> > > > initialized. I'll try to build loop non-modular now, and see if that
> > > > makes the bug appear here.
> >
> > > my .config with which I reproduc this on 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 reliably can be
> > > obtained from http://www.jikos.cz/jikos/junk/.config
> >
> > Hmm, that config doesn't do anything here, and if I make it boot, it
> > does not show the bug.
> >
> > Could you possibly enable kobject debugging and see if that exposes
> > something, maybe something goes wrong with the kset refcount and it gets
> > released while in use.
> >
> Hi,
> I would do that.

That would be great.

> BTW, The bug report as EIP at __list_add with CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y

Yeah, that hints that the kset, which contains the list, is not
allocated at the time it is used, or it is already released (kfree)
again by some buggy logic.

All this could not happen before, as the kset was statically in memory.
It may be an old bug, that just never crashed anything. We already fixed
a bunch of similar things, that showed up while doing this patch set.

Thanks,
Kay