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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH block/for-next] block: don't call blk_drain_queue() if elevator is not up
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:49:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB2D441.9040708@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111103162634.GK4417@google.com>

On 2011-11-03 17:26, Tejun Heo wrote:
> blk_cleanup_queue() may be called before elevator is set up on a
> queue which triggers the following oops.
> 
>  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
>  IP: [<ffffffff8125a69c>] elv_drain_elevator+0x1c/0x70
>  ...
>  Pid: 830, comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 3.1.0-next-20111025_64+ #1590
>  Bochs Bochs
>  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8125a69c>]  [<ffffffff8125a69c>] elv_drain_elevator+0x1c/0x70
>  ...
>  Call Trace:
>   [<ffffffff8125da92>] blk_drain_queue+0x42/0x70
>   [<ffffffff8125db90>] blk_cleanup_queue+0xd0/0x1c0
>   [<ffffffff81469640>] md_free+0x50/0x70
>   [<ffffffff8126f43b>] kobject_release+0x8b/0x1d0
>   [<ffffffff81270d56>] kref_put+0x36/0xa0
>   [<ffffffff8126f2b7>] kobject_put+0x27/0x60
>   [<ffffffff814693af>] mddev_delayed_delete+0x2f/0x40
>   [<ffffffff81083450>] process_one_work+0x100/0x3b0
>   [<ffffffff8108527f>] worker_thread+0x15f/0x3a0
>   [<ffffffff81089937>] kthread+0x87/0x90
>   [<ffffffff81621834>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> 
> Fix it by making blk_cleanup_queue() check whether q->elevator is set
> up before invoking blk_drain_queue.

Thanks, glad this got caught before the merge...

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-03 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-03 16:08 NULL ptr deref at elv_drain_elevator Jiri Slaby
2011-11-03 16:14 ` Tejun Heo
2011-11-03 16:16   ` Jiri Slaby
2011-11-03 16:26   ` [PATCH block/for-next] block: don't call blk_drain_queue() if elevator is not up Tejun Heo
2011-11-03 17:49     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2011-11-03 21:12       ` Tejun Heo
2011-11-04  8:12         ` Jens Axboe
2011-11-04 14:26           ` Tejun Heo
2011-11-04 14:28             ` Jens Axboe
2011-11-04 14:30               ` Tejun Heo
2011-11-04  9:40     ` Stefan Richter
2011-11-04 14:38       ` Tejun Heo

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