Re: Unable to switch stack frames while using crash

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On 24 June 2011 15:29, Dave Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, although the contents tty->read_buf are hard to explain.
It gets allocated during n_tty_open() and freed during n_tty_close().
And at the beginning of n_tty_read() there's:

       BUG_ON(!tty->read_buf);

and the dump-time contents show a buffer allocated:

crash> tty_struct ffff8802cbd54800
 struct tty_struct { ...
  magic = 21505,
  driver = 0xffff88031b54ea00,
  ops = 0xffffffff8130f650,
  name = "pts9\000\...",
  driver_data = 0xffff88029c8a9668,
  icanon = 1 '\001',
  read_buf = 0xffff8802cbfe6000 "",
  read_head = 0,
  read_tail = 0,
  read_cnt = 0,
  ...

but it's a NULL pointer when read during the function?


Hmm, that is interesting. Assuming that we are in fact dealing with a software bug where this memory area changed recently, the only possible explanation I can see is that n_tty_close() has been called while n_tty_read() is in progress. I know that's not supposed to happen, but the implication would be that is the bug - a locking issue in the tty layer that allows them to be closed while calls are in progress. Sadly that code isn't as mature as it should be and there was a whole load of concurrency issues fixed in the late 2.6.30s; I don't know the details, but it might be one of those.

Alternatively it's regular old hardware failure and we're just looking at junk.

I think that's about as far as we can go on the information available (and also the extent to which it's relevant to this mailing list)
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