linux-kernel - Re: bio linked list corruption.

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Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2016 12:35:16 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        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 Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk> wrote:
>
> BUG: Bad page state in process kworker/u8:12  pfn:4e0e39
> page:ffffea0013838e40 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff8804a20310e0 index:0x100c
> flags: 0x400000000000000c(referenced|uptodate)
> page dumped because: non-NULL mapping

Hmm. So this seems to be btrfs-specific, right?

I searched for all your "non-NULL mapping" cases, and they all seem to
have basically the same call trace, with some work thread doing
writeback and going through btrfs_writepages().

Sounds like it's a race with either fallocate hole-punching or
truncate. I'm not seeing it, but I suspect it's btrfs, since DaveJ
clearly ran other filesystems too but I am not seeing this backtrace
for anything else.

 Linus