netdev - Re: nfs NULL-dereferencing in net-next

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Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:08:40 +0100
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
To:     Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>
Cc:     Yotam Gigi <yotamg@...lanox.com>, Andy Adamson <andros@...app.com>,
        "linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
        Yotam Gigi <yotam.gi@...il.com>, mlxsw <mlxsw@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: nfs NULL-dereferencing in net-next

On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:15:24 +0000, Yotam Gigi wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Anna Schumaker [mailto:Anna.Schumaker@...app.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 5:40 PM
> >To: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@...lanox.com>; Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>; Andy
> >Adamson <andros@...app.com>; Anna Schumaker
> ><Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>; linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
> >Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org; Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>;
> >Yotam Gigi <yotam.gi@...il.com>; mlxsw <mlxsw@...lanox.com>
> >Subject: Re: nfs NULL-dereferencing in net-next
> >
> >On 10/25/2016 01:19 PM, Yotam Gigi wrote:  
> >>  
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org]  
> >On  
> >>> Behalf Of Jakub Kicinski
> >>> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 10:20 PM
> >>> To: Andy Adamson <andros@...app.com>; Anna Schumaker
> >>> <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>; linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
> >>> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org; Trond Myklebust  
> ><Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>  
> >>> Subject: nfs NULL-dereferencing in net-next
> >>>
> >>> Hi!
> >>>
> >>> I'm hitting this reliably on net-next, HEAD at 3f3177bb680f
> >>> ("fsl/fman: fix error return code in mac_probe()").  
> >>
> >>
> >> I see the same thing. It happens constantly on some of my machines, making  
> >them  
> >> completely unusable.
> >>
> >> I bisected it and got to the commit:
> >>
> >> commit 04ea1b3e6d8ed4978bb608c1748530af3de8c274
> >> Author: Andy Adamson <andros@...app.com>
> >> Date:   Fri Sep 9 09:22:27 2016 -0400
> >>
> >>     NFS add xprt switch addrs test to match client
> >>
> >>     Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@...app.com>
> >>     Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>  
> >
> >Thanks for reporting on this everyone!  Does this patch help?  
> 
> Actually, I still see the same bug with the same trace.

I rebuild the latest net-next and I'm not seeing the trace any more...
I'm only seeing this (with or without your patch):

[   23.465877] NFS: set_pnfs_layoutdriver: cl_exchange_flags 0x0
[   23.473784] NFS: set_pnfs_layoutdriver: cl_exchange_flags 0x0
[   23.588890] NFS: set_pnfs_layoutdriver: cl_exchange_flags 0x0
[   23.596746] NFS: set_pnfs_layoutdriver: cl_exchange_flags 0x0
[   23.781574] NFS: set_pnfs_layoutdriver: cl_exchange_flags 0x0
[   23.789599] NFS: set_pnfs_layoutdriver: cl_exchange_flags 0x0

HTH