Re: 2.6.23-rc9: Oops in cache_alloc_refill() mm/slab.c

[Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 18:13 +0200, Valerie Clement wrote:
> While running ffsb tests on my ext4 filesystem, I got an Oops in 
> cache_alloc_refill().
> I turned on SLAB debugging and here is the message I got:
> 
> slab: Internal list corruption detected in cache 'buffer_head'(30), 
> slabp ffff81007e100100(1515870810). Hexdump:

slabp->inuse = 1515870810 looks bogus. Is this easily reproducible ?
What tests are you running through ffsb ?

> 000: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a b8 23 34 7e 00 81 ff ff
> 010: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a
> 020: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a
> 030: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a
> 040: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a
> 050: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a
> 060: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a a5
> 070: c0 88 56 63 c5 56 41 d8 f1 37 4a 80 ff ff ff ff
> 080: c0 88 56 63 c5 56 41 d8 80 33 53 7d 00 81 ff ff
> 090: e8 25 60 7d 00 81 ff ff 68 cb 3b 01 00 81 ff ff
> 0a0: 18 68 50 7d 00 81 ff ff
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at /home/clementv/src/linux-2.6.23-rc9/mm/slab.c:2923!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP
> CPU 2
> Modules linked in: qla2xxx
> Pid: 4041, comm: ffsb Not tainted 2.6.23-rc9 #2
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802758b6>]  [<ffffffff802758b6>] check_slabp+0xb5/0xc1
> RSP: 0018:ffff8100774bb958  EFLAGS: 00010096
> RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff81007e100100 RCX: 0000000000006d20
> RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: 0000000000000046 RDI: ffff81007e347280
> RBP: 00000000000000a8 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: ffffffff8060bb10
> R10: 00000000000ae468 R11: 0000000500000002 R12: 00000000000000a8
> R13: ffff81007e347280 R14: ffff81007e347280 R15: 0000000000000002
> FS:  0000000041802950(0063) GS:ffff81007e0c4728(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> CR2: 000000005f83d00c CR3: 0000000078149000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> Process ffsb (pid: 4041, threadinfo ffff8100774ba000, task ffff81007dbdc7a0)
> Stack:  000000000000000d 000000000000000e ffff81007e100100 ffff81007e342398
>   ffff81007e078488 ffffffff80277069 0000000000008050 ffff81007e347280
>   0000000000008050 0000000000000246 ffffffff80299539 fffffffffffff000
> Call Trace:
>   [<ffffffff80277069>] cache_alloc_refill+0xc8/0x23f
>   [<ffffffff80299539>] alloc_buffer_head+0x14/0x45
>   [<ffffffff802774cd>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x94/0xe9
>   [<ffffffff80299539>] alloc_buffer_head+0x14/0x45
>   [<ffffffff80299cf7>] alloc_page_buffers+0x38/0xd5
>   [<ffffffff80299da8>] create_empty_buffers+0x14/0x9b
>   [<ffffffff8029a875>] __block_prepare_write+0x7c/0x45b
>   [<ffffffff802f6e29>] ext4_get_block+0x0/0x139
>   [<ffffffff8029ac6e>] block_prepare_write+0x1a/0x25
>   [<ffffffff802f8340>] ext4_prepare_write+0xaf/0x175
>   [<ffffffff802576c2>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x288/0x631
>   [<ffffffff80257daa>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x33f/0x3a9
>   [<ffffffff8022b7d5>] enqueue_entity+0x17c/0x1a3
>   [<ffffffff80257e75>] generic_file_aio_write+0x61/0xc1
>   [<ffffffff8022c512>] __check_preempt_curr_fair+0x56/0x76
>   [<ffffffff802f4022>] ext4_file_write+0x16/0x91
>   [<ffffffff8027c4f4>] do_sync_write+0xc9/0x10c
>   [<ffffffff8027d50a>] file_move+0x1d/0x4c
>   [<ffffffff80245992>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
>   [<ffffffff8027b216>] do_filp_open+0x2a/0x38
>   [<ffffffff80275f7a>] poison_obj+0x26/0x30
>   [<ffffffff8027cc34>] vfs_write+0xad/0x136
>   [<ffffffff8027d171>] sys_write+0x45/0x6e
>   [<ffffffff8020b32e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83
> 
> 
> Valérie


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