linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] another tranche of SCSI updates for 2.6.26

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Message-Id: <1209351113.3801.107.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:51:52 -0400
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] another tranche of SCSI updates for 2.6.26

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 03:34 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> wrote:
> 
> > This represents the tree I had waitin on other mergers.  I'm not sure 
> > this is it, because there are other features (like aic94xx running 
> > abort) we're racing to get in.
> > 
> > The patch is available at:
> > 
> > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git
> 
> hm, got this crash with latest -git shortly after i rebased from this 
> morning's git to this night's git, it looks SCSI related:
> 
> [   44.513114] Calling initcall 0xc1cece47: init_this_scsi_driver+0x0/0xd0()
> [   47.919053] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004
> [   47.927035] IP: [<c09cf947>] scsi_destroy_command_freelist+0x15/0x5a
> [   47.931008] *pde = 00000000 
> [   47.935253] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> [   47.939004] Modules linked in:
> [   47.939004] 
> [   47.939004] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.25-sched-devel.git-x86-latest.git #5)
> [   47.939004] EIP: 0060:[<c09cf947>] EFLAGS: 00010217 CPU: 0
> [   47.939004] EIP is at scsi_destroy_command_freelist+0x15/0x5a
> [   47.939004] EAX: c0042000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: c199ba14 EDX: fffffffc
> [   47.939004] ESI: c0042000 EDI: c0042034 EBP: f7c36ebc ESP: f7c36eb0
> [   47.939004]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
> [   47.939004] Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=f7c36000 task=f7c4e000 task.ti=f7c36000)
> [   47.939004] Stack: c0042000 00000000 00000000 f7c36ecc c09cfa4c c004225c c1a43378 f7c36ed4 
> [   47.939004]        c0688535 f7c36ee8 c04e942b c0042260 c04e93e6 00000330 f7c36ef8 c04e9f20 
> [   47.939004]        c004225c 00000002 f7c36f04 c04e9353 c0042000 f7c36f0c c0688aee f7c36f14 
> [   47.939004] Call Trace:
> [   47.939004]  [<c09cfa4c>] ? scsi_host_dev_release+0x79/0xa9
> [   47.939004]  [<c0688535>] ? device_release+0x3e/0x54
> [   47.939004]  [<c04e942b>] ? kobject_release+0x45/0x55
> [   47.939004]  [<c04e93e6>] ? kobject_release+0x0/0x55
> [   47.939004]  [<c04e9f20>] ? kref_put+0x3e/0x49
> [   47.939004]  [<c04e9353>] ? kobject_put+0x41/0x46
> [   47.939004]  [<c0688aee>] ? put_device+0x16/0x18
> [   47.939004]  [<c09cf9d1>] ? scsi_host_put+0x12/0x14
> [   47.939004]  [<c09cfbac>] ? scsi_unregister+0x1d/0x20
> [   47.939004]  [<c1cece2d>] ? aha1542_detect+0x7d1/0x7eb
> [   47.939004]  [<c016de2e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0xd
> [   47.939004]  [<c1cece52>] ? init_this_scsi_driver+0xb/0xd0
> [   47.939004]  [<c01922a7>] ? ftrace_record_ip+0x1d4/0x1ed
> [   47.939004]  [<c1cecea5>] ? init_this_scsi_driver+0x5e/0xd0
> [   47.939004]  [<c1c934e5>] ? kernel_init+0x152/0x2b0
> [   47.939004]  [<c1c93393>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x2b0
> [   47.939004]  [<c1c93393>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x2b0
> [   47.939004]  [<c011c967>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> [   47.939004]  =======================
> [   47.939004] Code: ff eb 0c 89 fa 83 c0 04 e8 78 ba b2 ff 31 d2 5b 89 d0 5e 5f 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 56 53 e8 cf d0 74 ff 89 c6 8d 78 34 eb 1c 8d 53 fc <8b> 42 08 8b 4a 04 89 41 04 89 08 89 5a 08 89 5a 04 8b 46 10 e8 
> [   47.939004] EIP: [<c09cf947>] scsi_destroy_command_freelist+0x15/0x5a SS:ESP 0068:f7c36eb0
 
sigh, every time I fix this free list stuff in one place, it breaks in
another.  This one is caused by the alloc->put sequence for the host (it
never got to scsi_add_host() where the freelist is allocated, so we need
to not release it in that case).

Try this; the signature for an uninitialised free list is easy (both
list pointers NULL), so the patch detects that and doesn't try to run
over the uninitialised list head.

James

---

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
index 12d69d7..dc36321 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
@@ -481,6 +481,14 @@ int scsi_setup_command_freelist(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
  */
 void scsi_destroy_command_freelist(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
 {
+	if (shost->free_list.next == NULL && shost->free_list.prev == NULL)
+		/*
+		 * If the next and prev pointers are NULL, that
+		 * means the list was never initialised, so it
+		 * doesn't need freeing
+		 */
+		return;
+
 	while (!list_empty(&shost->free_list)) {
 		struct scsi_cmnd *cmd;
 


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