linux-kernel - Re: 3.11.4: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1268

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Message-Id: <A80E174D-DCB8-41B2-84DF-38CAB9473AEE@dilger.ca>
Date:	Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:33:42 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Devel" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3.11.4: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1268

On Oct 17, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 05:11:43PM -0400, George Spelvin wrote:
>> 
>> Well, it happened again (error appended).  Can you please clarify what you mean
>> by "such BUG_ON()"; I'm having a hard time following the RCU code and determining
>> all the situations under which __fput() might be called.
> 
> __fput() can be called via task_work_run() or via schedule_work().  That's
> all.  And it certainly should never be called with interrupts disabled.
> So stick BUG_ON(irqs_disabled()) in it (WARN_ON() might be better, but
> not by much).
> 
> There are two ways these traces could've happened:
> 	* exit_task_work() called by do_exit() with irqs disabled.
> Definitely buggy (and would do really nasty things to several functions
> called by do_exit() before that one). 
> 	* __fput() is called with irqs enabled, but somewhere on the
> way into ext4 (dput -> iput -> evict inode -> free blocks, now that
> unlinked file got closed -> ...) we manage to disable irqs and forget
> to enable them.

IMHO the most common case of "BUG: sleeping function called from
invalid context” is due to stack overflow.  This corrupts the task
struct, and incorrectly sets the “in_interrupt” bit.

What kind of storage stack is underneath this filesystem?  If
it is deep (e.g. DM + LVM + iSCSI) then the stack overflow is
definitely possible.

There were also a discussion by Christoph of page allocation
recursing into the fs again (in "xfs: prevent stack overflows
from page cache allocation”) though I’m not sure if that applies
to ext4 or not.

Cheers, Andreas





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