linux-kernel - Re: General protection fault in iscsi_rx_thread_pre

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Date:	Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:56:30 +0800
From:	Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@...onical.com>
To:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
Cc:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, target-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: General protection fault in iscsi_rx_thread_pre_handler

Hi Nicholas,

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@...onical.com> wrote:
> Hi Nicholas,
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
> <nab@...ux-iscsi.org> wrote:
>> Hi Gavin,
>>
>> On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 08:28 +0800, Gavin Guo wrote:
>>> Hi Nicholas,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@...onical.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi Nicholas,
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
>>> > <nab@...ux-iscsi.org> wrote:
>>> >> On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 09:30 +0800, Gavin Guo wrote:
>>> >>> Hi Nicholas,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:35 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
>>> >>> <nab@...ux-iscsi.org> wrote:
>>> >>> > On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 23:56 +0800, Gavin Guo wrote:
>>> >>> >> Hi Nicolas,
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
>>
>> <SNIP>
>>
>>> >>> >> > At the time, a different set of iser-target related changes ended up
>>> >>> >> > avoiding this issue on his particular setup, so we thought it was likely
>>> >>> >> > a race triggered by login failures specific to iser-target code.
>>> >>> >> >
>>> >>> >> > There was a untested patch (included inline below) to drop the legacy
>>> >>> >> > active_ts_list usage all-together, but IIRC he was not able to reproduce
>>> >>> >> > further so the patch didn't get picked up for mainline.
>>> >>> >> >
>>> >>> >> > If your able to reliability reproduce, please try with the following
>>> >>> >> > patch and let us know your progress.
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> Thanks for your time reading the mail. I'll let you know the result.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Just curious, are you able to reliability reproduce this bug in a VM..?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Thanks for your caring, the machine is on the customer side, I've
>>> >>> asked and now waiting for their response.
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi Gavin,
>>> >>
>>> >> Just curious if there has been any update on this yet..?
>>> >>
>>> >> --nab
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Really thanks for your attention. I'm also currently waiting for the
>>> > customer's reply and will send the email again to ask for the result.
>>> > However, I think the symptom may be hard to replicate that's why the
>>> > customer didn't reply me for a long time. Thanks for your time again.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Gavin
>>>
>>> Sorry for making you wait so long. I just got the response from the
>>> customer, they said the general protection fault happened just 2 times
>>> in the past and cannot be reliably reproduced. And I am now waiting
>>> for the verification test.
>>>
>>
>> Just a heads up that I'm planning to include this patch in the v3.20-rc1
>> PULL request.
>>
>> Please let me know if you have any objections.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> --nab
>>
>
> The bug

Sorry, I mistakenly press the send button last time.

The bug doesn't appear after the customer upgraded the kernel with the
patch. Really thanks for your help. I'll keep you posted if the bug
appears again.

Thanks,
Gavin
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