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SubjectRe: [PATCH] block: fix intermittent dm timeout based oops
On Thu, Apr 23 2009, Christof Schmitt wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 08:01:06PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 03 2009, Christof Schmitt wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:17:30AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > > > Very rarely under stress testing of dm, oopses are occuring as
> > > > something tampers with an old stack frame. This has been traced back
> > > > to blk_abort_queue() leaving a timeout_list pointing to the stack.
> > > > The reason is that sometimes blk_abort_request() won't delete the
> > > > timer (if the request is marked as complete but before the timer has
> > > > been removed, a small race window). Fix this by splicing back from
> > > > the ususally empty list to the q->timeout_list.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
> > > > ---
> > > > block/blk-timeout.c | 6 ++++++
> > > > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/block/blk-timeout.c b/block/blk-timeout.c
> > > > index bbbdc4b..6213123 100644
> > > > --- a/block/blk-timeout.c
> > > > +++ b/block/blk-timeout.c
> > > > @@ -224,6 +224,12 @@ void blk_abort_queue(struct request_queue *q)
> > > > list_for_each_entry_safe(rq, tmp, &list, timeout_list)
> > > > blk_abort_request(rq);
> > > >
> > > > + /*
> > > > + * Occasionally, blk_abort_request() will return without
> > > > + * deleting the element from the list
> > > > + */
> > > > + list_splice(&list, &q->timeout_list);
> > > > +
> > > > spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
> > > >
> > > > }
> > > > --
> > > > 1.5.3.2
> > >
> > > I just noticed that this fix is not upstream yet and i have seen test
> > > cases hitting this problem.
> > >
> > > Jens, are you going to included this patch, or should this go through
> > > the SCSI tree?
> >
> > I will include it, and CC stable as well.
>
> Any update on this? 2.6.30-rc3 does not have the patch.

I'll be sure to include it today, I need to fix one more thing before
sending a new pull request.

--
Jens Axboe



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