Re: oops on 2.6.19-rc6-mm2: deref of 0x28 at permission+0x7

Jiri Slaby
2006-12-12T12:42:20Z

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday December 11, jikos@jikos.cz wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Neil Brown wrote:
>>
>>>> this nash thing is exactly the command which triggers a bit different
>>>> oops in my case. On my side, the oops is fully reproducible. If you
>>>> manage to make your case also reproducible, could you please try to
>>>> revert md-change-lifetime-rules-for-md-devices.patch? This made the
>>>> oops vanish in my case. I think Neil is working on it.
>>> Trying to work on it - not making a lot of progress. I find it hard to
>>> see how anything in md can cause the inode for a block-device file to
>>> disappear... It is a bit of a long-shot, but this patch might change
>>> things. It changes the order in which things are de-allocated. Jiri and
>>> Jiri: would either of both of you see if you can reproduce the bug with
>>> this patch on 2.6.19-rc6-mm2 ???
>> Hi Neil,
>>
>> sorry to say that, but it's still there after applying your patch.
>
> Not a big surprise, but thanks a lot for testing. I think I'm going
> to have to try harder to duplicate it myself.

Away from that machine now, so that I can't test anything till thursday.

> If I remember rightly you are using FC - which version exactly? (I've
> never installed FC before so this is going to be learning experience).

FC6 with latest updates.

> And you have no MD arrays at all - is that correct?

I do have. md1 md2 md3 -- raid0, 1, 0. But there is no md0 (removed in the past)
and 'raidautorun /dev/md0 | nash' causes the troubles.

> And you compile your own kernel. Is it monolithic, or are you using
> modules? Do you boot with an initrd or just the kernel?

Yup. Monolithic as much as possible (md is in the kernel and so dm is). / on the
lvm2 on the /dev/md1 with no initrd. All are sata disks, so sd_mod, sata_promise
and ata_piix are in the kernel.

> I'd like to duplicate your installation as closely as possible, so any
> relevant details or recipes would be greatly appreciated.

Hm, I have never seen FC6 installation process, so I can't say what special
option I have turned on -- it's 'yum upgrade'd from FC5, FC4...

regards,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby
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