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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Matthew McClintock <mmcclint@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression in 4.6.0-git - bisected to commit dd254f5a382c
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 02:10:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160525011036.GB14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1CDF0CFA-CCD2-440A-B956-2787BD8F2C4F@codeaurora.org>

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 07:58:13PM -0500, Matthew McClintock wrote:
> 
> > On May 24, 2016, at 6:41 PM, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > Again, I understand what's going on kernel-side; the only tricky part is how
> > to fix it without bringing the nasal daemons back.  I think I have a solution
> > and I'm going to post it tonight if it survives the local beating.  In any
> > case, the testcase above deserves being added to LTP - it's a real regression.
> 
> I’m running a simple busybox rootfs with the following init script:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/7b12fdb5d7def9a835291a79c060fa07
> 
> And inittab:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/5a840b7eaa48f321836125f15147d0e9
> 
> Happy to turn on ftrace, dyndbg, and provide more logs.

Slap the WARN_ON(!size); in the very beginning of iov_iter_advance(), see
where it's triggered...

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-25  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-23 21:30 Regression in 4.6.0-git - bisected to commit dd254f5a382c Larry Finger
2016-05-24  0:18 ` Al Viro
2016-05-24  2:55   ` Larry Finger
2016-05-24 16:10   ` Larry Finger
2016-05-24 16:28     ` Al Viro
2016-05-24 18:39       ` Larry Finger
2016-05-24 19:13     ` Matthew McClintock
2016-05-24 19:16       ` Larry Finger
2016-05-24 19:25         ` Matthew McClintock
2016-05-24 19:36           ` Larry Finger
2016-05-24 22:31             ` Matthew McClintock
2016-05-24 23:41               ` Al Viro
2016-05-25  0:58                 ` Matthew McClintock
2016-05-25  1:10                   ` Al Viro [this message]
2016-05-25  1:20                     ` Matthew McClintock
2016-05-25  1:28                       ` Al Viro
2016-05-25  2:06                         ` Matthew McClintock
2016-05-25  3:21                           ` Al Viro
2016-05-25  6:24                 ` Al Viro
2016-05-25 14:28                   ` Larry Finger
2016-05-25 15:27                   ` Matthew McClintock

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