Re: [uml-devel] kernel BUG at drivers/block/loop.c:621

[Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>]

On Saturday 18 March 2006 01:12, Rob Landley wrote:
> I can reproduce the following in 2.6.16-rc5, User Mode Linux:
>
> kernel BUG at drivers/block/loop.c:621!
> Kernel panic - not syncing: BUG!
>
> EIP: 0073:[<ffffe410>] CPU: 0 Not tainted ESP: 007b:b7de1f9c EFLAGS:
> 00200246 Not tainted
> EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000018be ECX: 00000013 EDX: 000018be
> ESI: 000018bb EDI: 00000011 EBP: b7de1fb8 DS: 007b ES: 007b
> 09b87bb4:  [<0806c762>] show_regs+0x102/0x110
> 09b87bd0:  [<0805b6fc>] panic_exit+0x2c/0x50
> 09b87be0:  [<0807ff7d>] notifier_call_chain+0x2d/0x50
> 09b87c00:  [<08071095>] panic+0x75/0x120
> 09b87c20:  [<0812e181>] loop_thread+0x151/0x160
> 09b87c4c:  [<08065297>] run_kernel_thread+0x37/0x60
> 09b87cfc:  [<0805bbd1>] new_thread_handler+0x91/0xc0

The below is strange - GCC is putting disks in the .text section or kallsyms 
has some bug.

> 09b87d20:  [<ffffe420>] disks+0xf7e7ec84/0x4

> The reproduction sequence is a bit involved (my mount regression test and
> the current svn snapshot of busybox are involved), and running the
> following sequence of commands:
>
> mount; mount -a; mount; mount /dev/loop1 /images/vfat.dir ;
> losetup /dev/loop1; ls; vi /etc/fstab; cat /etc/fstab; losetup /dev/loop0;
> mount /images/vfat.img /images/vfat.dir -o ro
>
> The current busybox mount is still broken in a couple of known places
> (hence the testing; I'm fixing it).  But it probably shouldn't panic the
> kernel...

*) Is this reproducible on host?

*) I don't understand yet what UML may be doing wrong.
*) look at: that spin_lock (SMP kernel? SPINLOCK_DEBUG? Try enabling the 
latter and see what happens).

(a bio is a block I/O request)
*) given what the code says, on that line bio is NULL, i.e. loop_get_bio 
returned NULL, i.e. (I guess) wait_for_completion_interruptible returned, 
because someone else (loop_make_request) did "complete" on its param, but 
incorrectly as the "someone else" hadn't filled the lo->lo_bio.

-- 
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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894)
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