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Message-ID: <46FD8298.5020804@namesys.com> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:39:20 +0400 From: Edward Shishkin <edward@...esys.com> To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, reiserfs-devel <reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org>, hch <hch@...radead.org> Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 NULL dereference in __mnt_is_readonly in ftruncate Dave Hansen wrote: >On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 01:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >>On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:54:20 -0600 Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org> wrote: >> >> >>>Near the end of my boot sequence, there is a kernel error. I am not >>>sure exactly what user-space is doing to make this happen, but I know >>>that a simple shell and some filesystem operations do not cause it. >>> >>>This error also occurred in 2.6.23-rc8-mm1 but I didn't have time to >>>post it and hoped it would just go away. I never tested 2.6.23-rc7-mm*, >>>and the error did not happen in rc6-mm1. >>> >>>console [netcon0] enabled >>>netconsole: network logging started >>>eth0: no IPv6 routers present >>>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000053 RIP: >>> [<ffffffff802c96c0>] __mnt_is_readonly+0x0/0x20 >>>PGD 0 >>>Oops: 0000 [1] SMP >>>last sysfs file: /block/sr0/size >>>CPU 0 >>>Modules linked in: netconsole configfs sg ipv6 evdev usbhid hid usb_storage libusual psmouse serio_raw ssb video output ehci_hcd ohci_hcd usbcore snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_timer snd snd_page_alloc >>>Pid: 7291, comm: smbd Not tainted 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 #1 >>>RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802c96c0>] [<ffffffff802c96c0>] __mnt_is_readonly+0x0/0x20 >>>RSP: 0018:ffff8100068b1b60 EFLAGS: 00010296 >>>RAX: ffff810007108000 RBX: ffff81000261d8c0 RCX: ffffffff8093aca0 >>>RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: ffffffff8092e950 RDI: 0000000000000003 >>>RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: ffffffff8061f7cd >>>R10: 00000000b256aacb R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000ffffffe2 >>>R13: ffff8100068b1bd8 R14: ffff8100068b1ee8 R15: ffff81000655a910 >>>FS: 00007f6f0930c6f0(0000) GS:ffffffff806ce000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 >>>CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b >>>CR2: 0000000000000053 CR3: 0000000007cb2000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 >>>DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 >>>DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 >>>Process smbd (pid: 7291, threadinfo ffff8100068b0000, task ffff810007108000) >>>last branch before last exception/interrupt >>> from [<ffffffff802cc37a>] mnt_want_write+0x3a/0x90 >>> to [<ffffffff802c96c0>] __mnt_is_readonly+0x0/0x20 >>>Stack: ffffffff802cc37f ffff8100078cd9a0 ffff8100068b1bd8 ffff8100078cd9a0 >>> ffffffff802c82bc ffff8100078cd780 0000000000000000 ffff8100078cd9a0 >>> ffff8100068b1bd8 ffff8100068b1ee8 0000000000003000 0000000000000000 >>>Call Trace: >>> [<ffffffff802cc37f>] mnt_want_write+0x3f/0x90 >>> [<ffffffff802c82bc>] file_update_time+0x2c/0xe0 >>> [<ffffffff803506a8>] truncate_file_body+0x148/0x3f0 >>> [<ffffffff802647a3>] __lock_acquire+0x583/0x1180 >>> [<ffffffff80537f17>] _spin_unlock+0x17/0x20 >>> [<ffffffff80363822>] store_black_box+0x82/0x90 >>> [<ffffffff8034a845>] safe_link_add+0x75/0xd0 >>> [<ffffffff803521f7>] setattr_unix_file+0x207/0x220 >>> [<ffffffff80538274>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x30 >>> [<ffffffff805377f1>] __down_write_nested+0xa1/0xc0 >>> [<ffffffff802c8857>] notify_change+0xf7/0x2c0 >>> [<ffffffff802b051e>] do_truncate+0x5e/0x80 >>> [<ffffffff802b0659>] sys_ftruncate+0x119/0x130 >>> [<ffffffff8020c39e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 >>> >>> >>But you oopsed in a different place, via resier4. I don't know if Dave >>considers that part of his mandate - he could reasonably ask the reiser4 >>guys to help fix things up. >> >> > >First of all, thanks a bunch for the report. It really helps. > >This could probably be considered a reiser4 bug, excited by the r/o bind >mount changes. See how that pointer is 0x...053? That's a weird offset >for a structure that should be mostly word-aligned. > >I think that's because reiser4 stack-allocates a 'struct file', and then >only initializes parts of it, *not* including the vfsmount. The test in >file_update_time() is for f->f_vfsmnt == NULL, and I think we had >something like 0x1 in there. > >I think that stack allocation is a pretty nasty trick for a structure >that's supposed to be pretty persistent and dynamically allocated, and >is certainly something that needs to get fixed up in a proper way. > > agreed. >This works around the problem for now, but this could potentially cause >more bugs any time we add some member to 'struct file' and depend on its >state being sane anywhere in the VFS. If there's a list anywhere of >merge-stopper reiser4 bugs around, this should probably go in there. > > > will be fixed. >In general, I think reiser4 also lets the 'struct file' get way too deep >into its internals. For instance, I would expect reiser4_write_extent() >to take a plain inode, not a 'struct file'. > > This uses struct file's private data for so-called hints (speedup technique). Why not plain inode? I think because this is remains of removed file-as-directory stuff. >Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com> > >--- > > lxc-dave/fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > >diff -puN fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c~reiser4-need-to-initialize-file-f_mnt fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c >--- lxc/fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c~reiser4-need-to-initialize-file-f_mnt 2007-09-28 09:10:51.000000000 -0700 >+++ lxc-dave/fs/reiser4/plugin/file/file.c 2007-09-28 09:11:20.000000000 -0700 >@@ -581,6 +581,7 @@ static int truncate_file_body(struct ino > file.private_data = NULL; > file.f_pos = new_size; > file.private_data = NULL; >+ file.f_vfsmnt = NULL; > uf_info = unix_file_inode_data(inode); > result = find_file_state(inode, uf_info); > if (result) >_ > > > > Many thanks, Edward. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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