linux-kernel - Re: kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/group.c:65!

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Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:00:15 +0800
From:	Weng Meiling <wengmeiling.weng@...wei.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, <tom.leiming@...il.com>,
	<tj@...nel.org>
CC:	<tt.rantala@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Huang Qiang <h.huangqiang@...wei.com>,
	"Li Zefan" <lizefan@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/group.c:65!

ping ...

On 2014/10/9 20:47, Weng Meiling wrote:
> On 2014/10/9 20:43, Weng Meiling wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I see the mails you discussed the BUG at fs/sysfs/group.c:65! triggered by duplicated sysfs link.
>>
>> the detail mail:
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/8/370
>>
>> but it seems the problems has no conclusion. In our environment, we triggered the bug too, but for error ENOENT:
>>
>> we use 3.4 kernel, and do virtual disk device create / remove for many times. Before remove we can see the devices:
>>
>> #ll /sys/devices/virtual/block/
>> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Oct  6 09:17 sd-1a
>> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Oct  6 09:17 sd-2a
>>
>> when the two virtual devices were removed, the directory block/ was delete too.
>>
>> after many times create / remove, the kernel trigger the bug (just the main call trace):
>>
>> [ 3965.441713] WARNING: at /usr/src/packages/BUILD/linux-3.4/lib/kobject.c:202 kobject_add_internal+0x11f/0x280()
>> [ 3965.441716] Hardware name: Romley
>> [ 3965.441718] kobject_add_internal failed for sd-1a (error: -2 parent: block)
>>
>> [ 3965.441817] Call Trace:
>> [ 3965.441820]  [<ffffffff8103717a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
>> [ 3965.441823]  [<ffffffff81037251>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x50
>> [ 3965.441826]  [<ffffffff81215e0f>] kobject_add_internal+0x11f/0x280
>> [ 3965.441830]  [<ffffffff81216267>] kobject_add+0x67/0xc0
>> [ 3965.441833]  [<ffffffff812d2305>] device_add+0x105/0x6d0
>> [ 3965.441836]  [<ffffffff812d0dbc>] ? dev_set_name+0x3c/0x40
>> [ 3965.441839]  [<ffffffff812030ac>] add_disk+0x1bc/0x490
>>
>> [ 3965.441912] kernel BUG at /usr/src/packages/BUILD/linux-3.4/fs/sysfs/group.c:65!
>> [ 3965.441915] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
>> [ 3965.686738] Call Trace:
>> [ 3965.686743]  [<ffffffff811a677e>] sysfs_create_group+0xe/0x10
>> [ 3965.686748]  [<ffffffff810cfb04>] blk_trace_init_sysfs+0x14/0x20
>> [ 3965.686753]  [<ffffffff811fcabb>] blk_register_queue+0x3b/0x120
>> [ 3965.686756]  [<ffffffff812030bc>] add_disk+0x1cc/0x490
>>
>> from the error "kobject_add_internal failed for sd-1a (error: -2 parent: block)", we found that the first
>> warning was caused by the disk device's parent_sd was null when it was added into sysfs:
>>
>> int sysfs_create_dir(struct kobject * kobj)
>> {
>>     ...
>>     if (kobj->parent)
>>         parent_sd = kobj->parent->sd;
>>     else
>>         parent_sd = &sysfs_root;
>>
>>     if (!parent_sd)
>>         return -ENOENT;
>>     ...
>> }
>>
>> The virtual disk device was not added into sysfs because of the above failure, and the kobj->sd was
>> not set, then trigger the bug when creating attribute group under the device's directory:
>>
>> static int internal_create_group(struct kobject *kobj, int update,
>>                  const struct attribute_group *grp)
>> {
>>     ...
>>     BUG_ON(!kobj || (!update && !kobj->sd));
>>     ...
>> }
>>
>> Walk the code, it seems there maybe a race between block/ remove and virtual disk devices' register:
>>
>> when the two virtual devices were removed, the block/ directory's refcount became 0, will into:
>>
>> path0(remove the block/)                                             path1(register virtual device sd-1a)
>>
>> kobject_del(){                                                       get_device_parent(){
>> ...                                                                  ...
>>    sysfs_remove_dir(kobj);  //kobj->sd=0                                 spin_lock(&dev->class->p->glue_dirs.list_lock);
> 
> this should be kobj->sd = NULL
>> ...                                                      <=========      list_for_each_entry(k, &dev->class->p->glue_dirs.list, entry)  //get parent kobject from kset list
>>    kobj_kset_leave(kobj);   //remove kobj from kset list             ...
>> }                                                                    }
>>
>> If getting parent object between " kobj->sd=0 " and "remove_kset_leave(kobj)", the sysfs_create_dir() will return ENOENT and trigger the BUG later.
>>
> this should be kobj->sd = NULL
> 
>> The lastest kernel seems to be the same. But I am not familiar with block device, I am not sure whether the analysis is right or I am missing something.
>> what do you think about this situation? Any suggestion is appreciative. Thanks!
>>
>>
> 
> 


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