linux-kernel - Re: bio linked list corruption.

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Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:01:13 -0400
From:   Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        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>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Subject: Re: bio linked list corruption.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 03:51:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > Dave: it might be a good idea to split that "WARN_ON_ONCE()" in
 > blk_mq_merge_queue_io() into two, since right now it can trigger both
 > for the
 > 
 >                 blk_mq_bio_to_request(rq, bio);
 > 
 > path _and_ for the
 > 
 >                 if (!blk_mq_attempt_merge(q, ctx, bio)) {
 >                         blk_mq_bio_to_request(rq, bio);
 >                         goto insert_rq;
 > 
 > path. If you split it into two: one before that "insert_rq:" label,
 > and one before the "goto insert_rq" thing, then we could see if it is
 > just one of the blk_mq_merge_queue_io() cases (or both) that is
 > broken..

It's the latter of the two.

[   12.302392] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 272 at block/blk-mq.c:1191
blk_sq_make_request+0x320/0x4d0

	Dave