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Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:03:09 +0300
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To: Don Mullis <don.mullis@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] improve list_sort test
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 11:10 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while hunting a non-existing bug in 'list_sort()', I've improved the
> 'list_sort_test()' function which tests the 'list_sort()' library call. Although
> at the end I found a bug in my code, but not in 'list_sort()', I think my
> clean-ups and improvements are worth merging because they make the test function
> better.
Actually, your 'list_sort()' version does have a problem. I found out
that it calls 'cmp(priv, a, b)' with 'a = b' sometimes, and in these
cases 'a' and 'b' can point to something which is not a valid element of
the original list. Probably a senitel or something like that.
It is easy to work around this by adding:
if (a == b)
return 0;
in the 'cmp()' function, but this is nevertheless a bug (not too bad,
though) and should be fixed. Also, the fact that 'cmp()' is called with
'a==b' sometimes should be documented.
I'm CC-ing 2 other users of 'list_sort()' for head-ups (xfs, drm).
I've fixed assertions in UBIFS using the following patch:
===========================================================================
>From 3ea1708e2d0462dc8eaf1076ebf973d82700952b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 12:45:23 +0300
Subject: [PATCHv2 8/9] UBIFS: fix assertion warnings in comparison function
When running the integrity test ('integck' from mtd-utils) on current
UBIFS on 2.6.35, I see that assertions in UBIFS 'list_sort()' comparison
functions trigger sometimes, e.g.:
UBIFS assert failed in data_nodes_cmp at 132 (pid 28311)
My investigation showed that this happens when 'list_sort()' calls the 'cmp()'
function with equivalent arguments. In this case, the 'struct list_head'
parameter, passed to 'cmp()' is bogus, and it does not belong to any element in
the original list.
And this issue seems to be introduced by commit:
commit 835cc0c8477fdbc59e0217891d6f11061b1ac4e2
Author: Don Mullis <don.mullis@...il.com>
Date: Fri Mar 5 13:43:15 2010 -0800
It is easy to work around the issue by doing:
if (a == b)
return 0;
in UBIFS. It works, but 'lib_sort()' should nevertheless be fixed. Although it
is harmless to have this piece of code in UBIFS.
This patch adds that code to both UBIFS 'cmp()' functions:
'data_nodes_cmp()' and 'nondata_nodes_cmp()'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
---
fs/ubifs/gc.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/gc.c b/fs/ubifs/gc.c
index 8dbe36f..84ab9aa 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/gc.c
@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ int data_nodes_cmp(void *priv, struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b)
struct ubifs_scan_node *sa, *sb;
cond_resched();
+ if (a == b)
+ return 0;
+
sa = list_entry(a, struct ubifs_scan_node, list);
sb = list_entry(b, struct ubifs_scan_node, list);
@@ -165,6 +168,9 @@ int nondata_nodes_cmp(void *priv, struct list_head *a, struct list_head *b)
struct ubifs_scan_node *sa, *sb;
cond_resched();
+ if (a == b)
+ return 0;
+
sa = list_entry(a, struct ubifs_scan_node, list);
sb = list_entry(b, struct ubifs_scan_node, list);
--
1.7.1.1
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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