linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.39-rc4 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000c IP: cfq_insert

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Message-ID: <20110421185208.GB4796@tiehlicka.suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:52:08 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc4 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
 at 0000000c IP: cfq_insert_request+0x1d/0x3f5

On Thu 21-04-11 17:29:14, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2011-04-21 16:38, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I am going to bisect, let's see if I can find anything.
> >>
> >> Thanks, that would be great!
> > 
> > I'd expect it to be very timing-dependent, and thus could easily be
> > triggered (or hidden) by unrelated changes.
> > 
> > Just happening to have a request added to the elevator at _just_ the
> > same moment that another CPU is changing it and getting rid of the
> > data structures for the old one.
> 
> This particular bug does seem to trigger very reliably. The switching
> works by ensuring that we have no requests with elevator data associated
> with it before shutting down the old scheduler and attaching the new
> one. I smells more like a bug on doing an insert sort on a non-priv
> request. I bet this is it, Michal can you give it a spin?

Will try tomorrow.

> 
> diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
> index 6f6abc0..45ca1e3 100644
> --- a/block/elevator.c
> +++ b/block/elevator.c
> @@ -671,7 +671,8 @@ void __elv_add_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq, int where)
>  			q->boundary_rq = rq;
>  		}
>  	} else if (!(rq->cmd_flags & REQ_ELVPRIV) &&
> -		    where == ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT)
> +		    (where == ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT ||
> +		     where == ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE))
>  		where = ELEVATOR_INSERT_BACK;
>  
>  	switch (where) {
> 
> -- 
> Jens Axboe
> 

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