linux-kernel - Re: mtdchar kernel oops

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1204151951560.16000@eristoteles.iwoars.net>
Date:	Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:57:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Joel Reardon <joel@...mbassador.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
cc:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mtdchar kernel oops

Nope, still there.

As example trace:

[  162.141319] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 367fb000
[  162.141405] IP: [<c023614f>] mntget+0xf/0x20
[  162.141463] *pde = 00000000
[  162.141499] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[  162.141542] Modules linked in: mtdchar nandsim nand nand_ids mtd
nand_ecc aes_i586 aes_generic parport_pc ppdev dm_crypt snd_hda_codec_hdmi
snd_hda_codec_conexant snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec btusb bluetooth
snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm thinkpad_acpi binfmt_misc
snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi arc4 snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq iwlwifi mac80211 snd_timer snd_seq_device snd coretemp tpm_tis
cfg80211 psmouse serio_raw joydev soundcore snd_page_alloc tpm microcode
tpm_bios nvram lp parport fbcon i915 tileblit font bitblit softcursor
drm_kms_helper usbhid hid mmc_block drm mxm_wmi crc32c_intel firewire_ohci
sdhci_pci sdhci ahci libahci firewire_core crc_itu_t i2c_algo_bit video
intel_agp intel_gtt agpgart e1000e [last unloaded: kvm]
[  162.142435]
[  162.142456] Pid: 2260, comm: ubiformat Not tainted
[  162.142569] EIP: 0060:[<c023614f>] EFLAGS: 00010282 CPU: 1
[  162.142632] EIP is at mntget+0xf/0x20
[  162.142674] EAX: f6804c10 EBX: f917ff38 ECX: 00000073 EDX: 00000000
[  162.142744] ESI: f917ff34 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f0847db8 ESP: f0847db8
[  162.142815]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
[  162.142875] CR0: 80050033 CR2: 367fb000 CR3: 36b56000 CR4: 000007d0
[  162.142946] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[  162.143016] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
[  162.143060] Process ubiformat (pid: 2260, ti=f0846000 task=f43fa5e0
task.ti=f0846000)
[  162.143146] Stack:
[  162.143170]  f0847dd8 c023b888 f4834c00 f0847df0 c0a7088c fffffff3
f3df00c0 00000000
[  162.143271]  f0847df0 f917fa34 c0220231 00000000 f6f11440 00000000
f0847e14 c0220252
[  162.143372]  f3df00c0 f2795b70 c0a706bc 00000000 f3df00c0 f2795b70
f11ff500 f0847e3c
[  162.143474] Call Trace:
[  162.143507]  [<c023b888>] simple_pin_fs+0x38/0xb0
[  162.143570]  [<f917fa34>] mtdchar_open+0x44/0x1a8 [mtdchar]
[  162.143636]  [<c0220231>] ? chrdev_open+0x71/0x180
[  162.143692]  [<c0220252>] chrdev_open+0x92/0x180
[  162.143749]  [<c021a2ee>] __dentry_open+0x1ee/0x2a0
[  162.147258]  [<c021b72e>] nameidata_to_filp+0x6e/0x80
[  162.150750]  [<c02201c0>] ? cdev_put+0x20/0x20
[  162.154212]  [<c02286a7>] do_last+0x287/0x800
[  162.157582]  [<c0229c45>] path_openat+0xa5/0x350
[  162.160949]  [<c022a001>] do_filp_open+0x31/0x80
[  162.164289]  [<c0234e93>] ? alloc_fd+0xa3/0xe0
[  162.167577]  [<c0225cf5>] ? getname_flags+0xe5/0x160
[  162.170862]  [<c021b81a>] do_sys_open+0xda/0x1a0
[  162.174118]  [<c021b912>] sys_open+0x32/0x40
[  162.177363]  [<c0615c63>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
[  162.180564] Code: fe ff ff 89 d8 31 db e8 40 fa ff ff e9 6c ff ff ff 8d
74 26 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 3e 8d 74 26 00 85 c0 74 06 8b 50 0c
<64> ff 02 5d c3 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bf 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 53
[  162.187488] EIP: [<c023614f>] mntget+0xf/0x20 SS:ESP 0068:f0847db8
[  162.190993] CR2: 00000000367fb000
[  162.261991] ---[ end trace 1e4490d14c39e9e1 ]---


It also occasionally does it while modprobing nandsim and claims
"mtd_probe" as the process.

Cheers,
Joel

On Sun, 15 Apr 2012, Al Viro wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 01:58:39PM +0200, Joel Reardon wrote:
> > I think that this patch:
> > "mtdchar: kill persistently held vfsmount"
> > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.head/314175
> >
> > has started causing kernel oops's when running ubiformat. The oops is
> > occuring in fs/namespace.c's mnt_add_count() line:
> >         this_cpu_add(mnt->mnt_pcp->mnt_count, n);
> >
> > with the stack trace:
> > mntget()
> > simple_pin_fs()
> > mtdchar_open()
>
> Check if commit c65390f4dd49755863f6d772ec538ee4757c08d7
> Author: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Date:   Mon Apr 9 01:36:28 2012 -0400
>
>     fix breakage in mtdchar_open(), sanitize failure exits
>
> has fixed that.
>
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