linux-kernel - Re: bio linked list corruption.

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610200915230.5073@nanos>
Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2016 09:17:50 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Philipp Hahn <pmhahn@...ahn.de>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bio linked list corruption.

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > So I don't think it's related. Yours looks like some subtle timer base
> > race. It smells like a locking problem with timers. I'm not seeing
> > what it might be, but it *might* have been fixed by doing the
> > TIMER_MIGRATING bit right in add_timer_on() (commit 22b886dd1018).

4.1 does not have the new fangled timer wheel. So 22b886dd1018 is
irrelevant.

> > Adding some timer people just in case, but I don't think your 4.1
> > report is related.

This looks like one of the classic issues where an enqueued timer gets
freed/reinitialized or otherwise manipulated. So yes, Ingos recommendation
for debugging is the right thing to do.
 
Thanks,

	tglx