On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:51:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:25:48 -0700
> Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Apologies if this has already been reported;
>
> It has not.
>
> > I didn't spot it on the
> > list. We've noticed an Oops on AMD64 when running linux-2.6.18-git8 and
> > -git9, but not -git7:
> >
> > mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000500 RIP:
> > [<ffffffff80489aa2>] mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+0xc/0x45
> > PGD 0
> > Oops: 0000 [1] PREEMPT SMP
>
> That's very clever.
>
> I'd be suspecting a miscompile, or something horrid in kfree().
>
> Does it change anything if you move that kfree() down a bit?
>
Got essentially the same oops, although the addresses have changed a
little:
mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000500 RIP:
[<ffffffff80489aa3>] mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+0xd/0x4c
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU 0
Modules linked in:
Pid: 8, comm: events/0 Not tainted 2.6.18-git10 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80489aa3>] [<ffffffff80489aa3>] mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+0xd/0x4c
RSP: 0000:ffff81003ec65e40 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff81003ec65ef8 RBX: ffff81003eff6640 RCX: ffff81003ec65ef8
RDX: ffff81003ed0cf58 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff81003eff6640
RBP: 0000000000000500 R08: ffff81003ec64000 R09: 00000000ffffffff
R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: ffff81003ed0cf40 R12: ffff81003eff6640
R13: 0000000000000213 R14: ffff81003eff6640 R15: ffffffff80489a96
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff8077a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000500 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process events/0 (pid: 8, threadinfo ffff81003ec64000, task ffff81007f180740)
Stack: ffff81003eff6640 ffff81003eff6648 ffff81003ed0cf40 ffffffff8023f1bd
ffff81003ed0cf40 ffff81003ed0cf40 ffffffff8023f204 ffff8100016dfd70
00000000fffffffc ffffffff8059457d 0000000000000000 ffffffff8023f30
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8023f1bd>] run_workqueue+0x9a/0xe1
[<ffffffff8023f204>] worker_thread+0x0/0x12e
[<ffffffff8023f300>] worker_thread+0xfc/0x12e
[<ffffffff80229f62>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe
[<ffffffff80229f62>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe
[<ffffffff80242433>] kthread+0xc8/0xf1
[<ffffffff8020a3f8>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
[<ffffffff8024236b>] kthread+0x0/0xf1
[<ffffffff8020a3ee>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
Code: 48 8b 45 00 48 8b b8 50 01 00 00 e8 5d 4d fe ff 48 85 c0 48
RIP [<ffffffff80489aa3>] mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+0xd/0x4c
RSP <ffff81003ec65e40>
CR2: 0000000000000500
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scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01030600h, Ports=1, MaxQ=255, IRQ=185
target0:0:0: dma_alloc_coherent for parameters failed
mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=ffff81003e840c80)
scsi 0:0:0:0:
command: cdb[0]=0x12: 12 00 00 00 24 00
mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery
Bryce
> With gcc-4.0.2 and your .config I get
>
> (gdb) x/20i mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work
> 0xffffffff8048475e <mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work>: push %rbp
> 0xffffffff8048475f <mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+1>: push %rbx
> 0xffffffff80484760 <mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+2>: push %rbp
> 0xffffffff80484761 <mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+3>: mov 0x60(%rdi),%rbp
> 0xffffffff80484765 <mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+7>: callq 0xffffffff8026df58 <kfree>
> 0xffffffff8048476a <mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+12>: mov 0x0(%rbp),%rax
> 0xffffffff8048476e <mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+16>: xor %esi,%esi
> 0xffffffff80484770 <mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work+18>: mov 0x150(%rax),%rdi
>
> So on entry to this function, wqw->hd is 0x500.
>
> Or kfree() somehow scrogged your %rbp register.
>
>
> > Full console logs showing the above oops are here:
> > -git7: ok http://crucible.osdl.org/runs/2223/sysinfo/amd01.console
> > -git8: Oops http://crucible.osdl.org/runs/2233/sysinfo/amd01.console
> > -git9: Oops http://crucible.osdl.org/runs/2241/sysinfo/amd01.console
> >
> > Reference information about the machine this is run on:
> > http://crucible.osdl.org/runs/2223/sysinfo/amd01.1/
> >
> > Config files:
> > -git7: http://crucible.osdl.org/runs/2223/sysinfo/amd01.config
> > -git8: http://crucible.osdl.org/runs/2233/sysinfo/amd01.config
>
> > ...
>
> > Just checked against latest -git10, same oops:
> >
> > http://crucible.osdl.org/runs/2256/sysinfo/amd01.console
> >
> > However, it is not occurring on our ita64, x86, or x86_64 systems
> > running the same kernels.
> >
>
> I'd be suspecting a miscompile, or something horrid in kfree().
>
> Does it change anything if you move that kfree() down a bit?
>
> --- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c~a
> +++ a/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c
> @@ -790,10 +790,9 @@ mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work(void *data)
> struct _MPT_SCSI_HOST *hd = wqw->hd;
> struct scsi_device *sdev;
>
> - kfree(wqw);
> -
> shost_for_each_device(sdev, hd->ioc->sh)
> mptspi_dv_device(hd, sdev);
> + kfree(wqw);
> }
>
> static void
> _
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