linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] fs/super.c: don't fool lockdep in freeze_super() and thaw

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Message-ID: <20161007165250.GA1906@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 7 Oct 2016 18:52:51 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Nikolay Borisov <kernel@...p.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        fstests@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] fs/super.c: don't fool lockdep in
        freeze_super() and thaw_super() paths

On 10/06, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 01:48:00PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Johannes is already looking into this
> > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161004093216.GA21170@cmpxchg.org
> >
> > On Tue 04-10-16 13:43:43, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > because of kernel bug:
> > >
> > > 	[ 2730.242537] run fstests generic/274 at 2016-10-04 05:17:34
> > > 	[ 2730.738352] XFS (loop1): Mounting V5 Filesystem
> > > 	[ 2730.741451] XFS (loop1): Ending clean mount
> > > 	[ 2744.508698] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > 	[ 2744.509190] kernel BUG at ./include/linux/swap.h:276!
> > >
> > > static inline void workingset_node_shadows_dec(struct radix_tree_node *node)
> > > {
> > > 	VM_BUG_ON(!workingset_node_shadows(node));
> > > 	node->count -= 1U << RADIX_TREE_COUNT_SHIFT;
>
> We tracked this one down and Linus merged a fix for this issue:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d3798ae8c6f3767c726403c2ca6ecc317752c9dd

Confirm, generic/274 no longer crashes the kernel.

Thanks.

Oleg.