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Date:	Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:11:58 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, Thomas Liu <tliu@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [origin tree SLAB corruption #2] BUG kmalloc-64: Poison
	overwritten, INFO: Allocated in bdi_alloc_work+0x2b/0x100 age=175
	cpu=1 pid=3514


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> Hard to tell whether it's BDI, RCU or something else - sadly this is 
> the only incident i've managed to log so far. (We'd be all much 
> happier if boxes crashed left and right! ;)
> 
> -tip's been carrying the RCU changes for a long(er) time which would 
> reduce the chance of this being RCU related. [ It's still possible 
> though: if it's a bug with a probability of hitting this box on these 
> workloads with a chance of 1:20,000 or worse. ]
> 
> Plus it triggered shortly after i updated -tip to latest -git which 
> had the BDI bits - which would indicate the BDI stuff - or just about 
> anything else in -git for that matter - or something older in -tip. 
> Every day without having hit this crash once more broadens the range 
> of plausible possibilities.
> 
> In any case, i'll refrain from trying to fit a line on a single point 
> of measurement ;-)

Ha! I should have checked all logs of today before writing that, not 
just that box's logs.

Another testbox triggered the SLAB corruption yesternight:

[   13.598011] Freeing unused kernel memory: 2820k freed
[   13.602011] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 13528k
[   13.649011] Not activating Mandatory Access Control now since /sbin/tomoyo-init doesn't exist.
[   14.391012] =============================================================================
[   14.391012] BUG kmalloc-96: Poison overwritten
[   14.391012] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[   14.391012] 
[   14.391012] INFO: 0xffff88003da4a950-0xffff88003da4a988. First byte 0x0 instead of 0x6b
[   14.391012] INFO: Allocated in bdi_alloc_work+0x20/0x83 age=6 cpu=0 pid=3191
[   14.391012] INFO: Freed in bdi_work_free+0x1b/0x2f age=4 cpu=0 pid=3193
[   14.391012] INFO: Slab 0xffffea000190ae10 objects=24 used=13 fp=0xffff88003da4a930 flags=0x200000000000c3
[   14.391012] INFO: Object 0xffff88003da4a930 @offset=2352 fp=0xffff88003da4a888
[   14.391012] 
[   14.391012] Bytes b4 0xffff88003da4a920:  52 a4 fb ff 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a R¤ū’....ZZZZZZZZ
[   14.391012]   Object 0xffff88003da4a930:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
[   14.391012]   Object 0xffff88003da4a940:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
[   14.391012]   Object 0xffff88003da4a950:  00 0c 47 3d 00 88 ff ff be 22 11 81 ff ff ff ff ..G=..’’¾"..’’’’
[   14.391012]   Object 0xffff88003da4a960:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
[   14.391012]   Object 0xffff88003da4a970:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
[   14.391012]   Object 0xffff88003da4a980:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5 kkkkkkkkjkkkkkk„
[   14.391012]  Redzone 0xffff88003da4a990:  bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb                         »»»»»»»»        
[   14.391012]  Padding 0xffff88003da4a9d0:  5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a                         ZZZZZZZZ        
[   14.391012] Pid: 3193, comm: mount Not tainted 2.6.31-tip-02377-g78907f0-dirty #88876
[   14.391012] Call Trace:
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff810e6bef>] print_trailer+0x140/0x149
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff810e70db>] check_bytes_and_report+0xb7/0xf7
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff810e71ec>] check_object+0xd1/0x1b4
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff81112078>] ? bdi_alloc_work+0x20/0x83
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff810e7bee>] alloc_debug_processing+0x7b/0xf7
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff810e9842>] __slab_alloc+0x23e/0x282
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff81112078>] ? bdi_alloc_work+0x20/0x83
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff81112078>] ? bdi_alloc_work+0x20/0x83
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff810e9a8f>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xa1/0x13f
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff81112078>] bdi_alloc_work+0x20/0x83
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff81112ae2>] bdi_writeback_all+0x66/0x133
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff810788b8>] ? mark_held_locks+0x4d/0x6b
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff81872268>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x12d/0x163
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff81078b45>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x11c/0x140
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff815c35e5>] ? usbfs_fill_super+0x0/0xa8
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff81112c87>] writeback_inodes_sb+0x75/0x83
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff8111652d>] __sync_filesystem+0x30/0x6b
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff81116705>] sync_filesystem+0x3a/0x51
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff810f4b23>] do_remount_sb+0x5b/0x11f
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff810f59a3>] get_sb_single+0x92/0xad
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff815c2f01>] usb_get_sb+0x1b/0x1d
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff810f5786>] vfs_kern_mount+0x9e/0x122
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff810f5871>] do_kern_mount+0x4c/0xec
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff8110dd15>] do_mount+0x1e9/0x236
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff8110dde6>] sys_mount+0x84/0xc6
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff8187333a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
[   14.391012]  [<ffffffff8100b642>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[   14.391012] FIX kmalloc-96: Restoring 0xffff88003da4a950-0xffff88003da4a988=0x6b
[   14.391012] 
[   14.391012] FIX kmalloc-96: Marking all objects used
[   20.597016] usb usb2: uevent
[   20.606016] usb 2-0:1.0: uevent
[   20.615016] usb usb3: uevent
[   20.622016] usb 3-0:1.0: uevent
[   20.631016] usb usb4: uevent

Different hardware, different config, but still in bdi_alloc_work().

- Which excludes cosmic rays and freak hardware from the list of 
  possibilities.

- I'd also say RCU is out too as this incident was 500 iterations after 
  the BDI merge - preceded by a streak of 3000+ successful iterations on 
  that same box with all of -tip (including the RCU changes).

- Random memory corruption is probably out as well - the chance of 
  hitting a BDI data structure twice accidentally is low.

- It's also two completely different versions of distros - the 
  user-space of the two testboxes affected is 2 years apart or so.

- It's a single CPU box - SMP races are out as well.

This points towards this being a BDI bug with about ~80% confidence 
statistically - or [with a lower probability] a SLAB bug. (both failing 
configs had CONFIG_SLUB=y. But SLUB is the best in detecting corrupted 
data structures so that alone does not tell much.)

Also, this particular config seems to reproduce the problem a bit more 
reliably - a second bootup gave a third corruption report, attached 
below.

Full bootlog and config attached as well.

	Ingo

[   13.677011] Freeing unused kernel memory: 2820k freed
[   13.681011] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 13528k
[   13.728011] Not activating Mandatory Access Control now since /sbin/tomoyo-init doesn't exist.
[   14.399012] =============================================================================
[   14.399012] BUG kmalloc-96: Poison overwritten
[   14.399012] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[   14.399012] 
[   14.399012] INFO: 0xffff88003da5c950-0xffff88003da5c988. First byte 0x0 instead of 0x6b
[   14.399012] INFO: Allocated in bdi_alloc_work+0x20/0x83 age=7 cpu=0 pid=3191
[   14.399012] INFO: Freed in bdi_work_free+0x1b/0x2f age=4 cpu=0 pid=3193
[   14.399012] INFO: Slab 0xffffea000190b560 objects=24 used=13 fp=0xffff88003da5c930 flags=0x200000000000c3
[   14.399012] INFO: Object 0xffff88003da5c930 @offset=2352 fp=0xffff88003da5c888
[   14.399012] 
[   14.399012] Bytes b4 0xffff88003da5c920:  5a a4 fb ff 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a Z¤ū’....ZZZZZZZZ
[   14.399012]   Object 0xffff88003da5c930:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
[   14.399012]   Object 0xffff88003da5c940:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
[   14.399012]   Object 0xffff88003da5c950:  00 83 49 3d 00 88 ff ff 92 23 11 81 ff ff ff ff ..I=..’’.#..’’’’
[   14.399012]   Object 0xffff88003da5c960:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
[   14.399012]   Object 0xffff88003da5c970:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
[   14.399012]   Object 0xffff88003da5c980:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5 kkkkkkkkjkkkkkk„
[   14.399012]  Redzone 0xffff88003da5c990:  bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb                         »»»»»»»»        
[   14.399012]  Padding 0xffff88003da5c9d0:  5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a                         ZZZZZZZZ        
[   14.399012] Pid: 3193, comm: mount Not tainted 2.6.31-tip-02387-gc84a410-dirty #88877
[   14.399012] Call Trace:
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff810e6cc3>] print_trailer+0x140/0x149
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff810e71af>] check_bytes_and_report+0xb7/0xf7
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff810e72c0>] check_object+0xd1/0x1b4
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff8111214c>] ? bdi_alloc_work+0x20/0x83
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff810e7cc2>] alloc_debug_processing+0x7b/0xf7
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff810e9916>] __slab_alloc+0x23e/0x282
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff8111214c>] ? bdi_alloc_work+0x20/0x83
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff8111214c>] ? bdi_alloc_work+0x20/0x83
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff810e9b63>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xa1/0x13f
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff8111214c>] bdi_alloc_work+0x20/0x83
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff81112bb6>] bdi_writeback_all+0x66/0x133
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff8107894c>] ? mark_held_locks+0x4d/0x6b
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff81872358>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x12d/0x163
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff81078bd9>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x11c/0x140
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff815c36c9>] ? usbfs_fill_super+0x0/0xa8
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff81112d5b>] writeback_inodes_sb+0x75/0x83
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff81116601>] __sync_filesystem+0x30/0x6b
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff811167d9>] sync_filesystem+0x3a/0x51
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff810f4bf7>] do_remount_sb+0x5b/0x11f
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff810f5a77>] get_sb_single+0x92/0xad
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff815c2fe5>] usb_get_sb+0x1b/0x1d
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff810f585a>] vfs_kern_mount+0x9e/0x122
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff810f5945>] do_kern_mount+0x4c/0xec
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff8110dde9>] do_mount+0x1e9/0x236
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff8110deba>] sys_mount+0x84/0xc6
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff8187342a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
[   14.399012]  [<ffffffff8100b642>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[   14.399012] FIX kmalloc-96: Restoring 0xffff88003da5c950-0xffff88003da5c988=0x6b
[   14.399012] 
[   14.399012] FIX kmalloc-96: Marking all objects used
[   20.640016] usb usb2: uevent
[   20.651016] usb 2-0:1.0: uevent
[   20.658016] usb usb3: uevent

View attachment "config-Tue_Sep_15_05_02_52_CEST_2009.bad" of type "text/plain" (71552 bytes)

View attachment "crash.log" of type "text/plain" (306070 bytes)

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