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SubjectRe: General protection fault in iscsi_rx_thread_pre_handler
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On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 09:30 +0800, Gavin Guo wrote:
> Hi Nicholas,
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:35 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
> <nab@linux-iscsi.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 23:56 +0800, Gavin Guo wrote:
> >> Hi Nicolas,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
> >> <nab@linux-iscsi.org> wrote:
> >> > Hi Gavin,
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 06:38 +0800, Gavin Guo wrote:
> >> >> Hi all,
> >> >>
> >> >> The general protection fault screenshot is attached.
> >> >>
> >> >> Summary:
> >> >> The kernel is Ubuntu-3.13.0-39.66. I've done basic analysis and found
> >> >> the fault is in list_del of iscsi_del_ts_from_active_list. And it
> >> >> looks like deleting the iscsi_thread_set *ts two times. The point to
> >> >> delete including iscsi_get_ts_from_inactive_list, was also checked but
> >> >> still can't find the clue. Really appreciate if anyone can provide any
> >> >> idea on the bug.
> >> >>
> >
> > <SNIP>
> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for your detailed analysis.
> >> >
> >> > A similar bug was reported off-list some months back by a person using
> >> > iser-target + RoCE export on v3.12.y code. Just to confirm, your
> >> > environment is using traditional iscsi-target + TCP export, right..?
> >>
> >> I am sorry that I'm not an expert of the field and already google RoCE
> >> on the internet but still don't really know what RoCE is. However, I
> >> can provide the informations. We used iscsiadm on the initiator side
> >> and lio_node and tcm_node commands to create the targets for
> >> connection. I think it should be normal iscsi-target using TCP
> >> export.
> >>
> >
> > Yep, that would be traditional iscsi-target + TCP export.
> >
> >> >
> >> > At the time, a different set of iser-target related changes ended up
> >> > avoiding this issue on his particular setup, so we thought it was likely
> >> > a race triggered by login failures specific to iser-target code.
> >> >
> >> > There was a untested patch (included inline below) to drop the legacy
> >> > active_ts_list usage all-together, but IIRC he was not able to reproduce
> >> > further so the patch didn't get picked up for mainline.
> >> >
> >> > If your able to reliability reproduce, please try with the following
> >> > patch and let us know your progress.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your time reading the mail. I'll let you know the result.
> >
> > Just curious, are you able to reliability reproduce this bug in a VM..?
>
> Thanks for your caring, the machine is on the customer side, I've
> asked and now waiting for their response.

Hi Gavin,

Just curious if there has been any update on this yet..?

--nab



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