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SubjectRe: What protection does sysfs_readdir have with SMP/Preemption?
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On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 09:15 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:

>
> But this is not the end of the problems. I'll follow up on that comment
> right after this.

Here's what I mean. I'm using the below patch to see what happens on
the error cases, and things are still bombing.

The patch returns a failure after 30 calls. Even with my previous patch,
I'm crashing.

PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
kobject_register failed for CHN1 (-12)
[<c01041ee>] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20
[<c02206ab>] kobject_register+0x6b/0x80
[<c0255e33>] acpi_device_register+0x105/0x11b
[<c0256b8e>] acpi_add_single_object+0xf6/0x146
[<c0256cee>] acpi_bus_scan+0x110/0x17b
[<c03d6297>] acpi_scan_init+0x6b/0x89
[<c03be9e7>] do_initcalls+0x57/0xd0
[<c03bea85>] do_basic_setup+0x25/0x30
[<c01002e5>] init+0x35/0x170
[<c01013e5>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
printing eip:
c01ab6ef
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c01ab6ef>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010296 (2.6.15-rc2-git2)
EIP is at create_dir+0xf/0x250
eax: 00000000 ebx: cfe92a0c ecx: cfe8b224 edx: 00000000
esi: cfe92a08 edi: cfe92e08 ebp: cffc1ec0 esp: cffc1e9c
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=cffc0000 task=c127aa50)
Stack: 00000000 00000010 cffc1eb8 c023b56b cfff2a40 000000d0 cfe92a08 cfe92a08
cfe92e08 cffc1ee0 c01ab998 cfe92a08 00000000 cfe92a0c cffc1ed8 00000000
00000000 cffc1ef4 c022035f cfe92a08 cfe92a08 fffffffe cffc1f0c c02205db
Call Trace:
[<c010418b>] show_stack+0xab/0xf0
[<c010437f>] show_registers+0x18f/0x230
[<c01045bd>] die+0xed/0x190
[<c032731a>] do_page_fault+0x33a/0x670
[<c0103df7>] error_code+0x4f/0x54
[<c01ab998>] sysfs_create_dir+0x38/0x80
[<c022035f>] create_dir+0x1f/0x60
[<c02205db>] kobject_add+0x8b/0xf0
[<c0220668>] kobject_register+0x28/0x80
[<c0255e33>] acpi_device_register+0x105/0x11b
[<c0256b8e>] acpi_add_single_object+0xf6/0x146
[<c0256cee>] acpi_bus_scan+0x110/0x17b
[<c03d6297>] acpi_scan_init+0x6b/0x89
[<c03be9e7>] do_initcalls+0x57/0xd0
[<c03bea85>] do_basic_setup+0x25/0x30
[<c01002e5>] init+0x35/0x170
[<c01013e5>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10
Code: 37 c0 89 e5 8b 45 08 89 88 8c 00 00 00 31 c0 5d c3 8d 74 26 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 57 56 53 83 ec 18 8b 45 0c 8b 5d 10 <8b> 50 08 ff 4a 70 0f 88 8c 0e 00 00 31 c0 b9 ff ff ff ff 89 df
<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!


I'm still looking into this, to see who can't handle the -ENOMEM.

-- Steve

Index: linux-2.6.15-rc2-git2/fs/sysfs/dir.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15-rc2-git2.orig/fs/sysfs/dir.c 2005-10-27 20:02:08.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc2-git2/fs/sysfs/dir.c 2005-11-23 08:04:42.000000000 -0500
@@ -98,13 +98,17 @@
{
int error;
umode_t mode = S_IFDIR| S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO;
+ static int breakme = 0;

down(&p->d_inode->i_sem);
*d = lookup_one_len(n, p, strlen(n));
if (!IS_ERR(*d)) {
error = sysfs_make_dirent(p->d_fsdata, *d, k, mode, SYSFS_DIR);
if (!error) {
- error = sysfs_create(*d, mode, init_dir);
+ if ((++breakme % 30))
+ error = sysfs_create(*d, mode, init_dir);
+ else
+ error = -ENOMEM;
if (!error) {
p->d_inode->i_nlink++;
(*d)->d_op = &sysfs_dentry_ops;


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