linux-kernel - Re: BUG_ON(nd->inode != parent->d

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Message-ID: <513AC4EC.6090104@oracle.com>
Date:	Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:13:16 -0500
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: BUG_ON(nd->inode != parent->d_inode);

On 03/08/2013 11:39 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 08:31:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > > I have a feeling there were some sysfs ones that may still be unfixed.
>  > >
>  > > I was right..
>  > >
>  > > [  425.836722] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
>  > 
>  > You forgot to enable DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC again, but I don't think it much
>  > matters. It's another slab free poison thing.
>  > 
>  > The faulting instruction is
>  > 
>  >     mov    0x28(%rbx),%ecx
>  > 
>  > with %rbx having the value 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b.
>  > 
>  > > [  425.847859] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8123f657>]  [<ffffffff8123f657>] sysfs_find_dirent+0x47/0xf0
>  > 
>  > That seems to be
>  > 
>  >     if (hash != sd->s_hash)
>  > 
>  > from sysfs_name_compare() that has been inlined into
>  > sysfs_find_dirent(). And where "sd" is the corrupted value. If I read
>  > things right.
>  > 
>  > So it looks like the sysfs rbtree is corrupted or something. Adding
>  > Greg to the cc.
>  
> oh , that rings a bell.  ISTR this had something to do with Sasha's idr changes.

I believe the issue you're referring to is my report of a panic in sysfs keys
where the device has gone away? If that is it, I don't think that this issue
is related to that one.

If not, I'm not sure which change you're referring to.


Thanks,
Sasha

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