This patch validates sdev pointer in scsi_dh_activate before proceeding further.
Without this check we might see the panic as below. I have seen this
panic multiple times..
Call trace:
#0 [ffff88007d647b50] machine_kexec at ffffffff81020902
#1 [ffff88007d647ba0] crash_kexec at ffffffff810875b0
#2 [ffff88007d647c70] oops_end at ffffffff8139c650
#3 [ffff88007d647c90] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8102dd15
#4 [ffff88007d647d50] page_fault at ffffffff8139b8cf
[exception RIP: scsi_dh_activate+0x82]
RIP: ffffffffa0041922 RSP: ffff88007d647e00 RFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000000093c5
RDX: 00000000000093c5 RSI: ffffffffa02e6640 RDI: ffff88007cc88988
RBP: 000000000000000f R8: ffff88007d646000 R9: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff880082293790 R11: 00000000ffffffff R12: ffff88007cc88988
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000286 R15: ffff880037b845e0
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0000
#5 [ffff88007d647e38] run_workqueue at ffffffff81060268
#6 [ffff88007d647e78] worker_thread at ffffffff81060386
#7 [ffff88007d647ee8] kthread at ffffffff81064436
#8 [ffff88007d647f48] kernel_thread at ffffffff81003fba
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- linux-3.1-rc4/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c.orig 2011-10-26 11:36:18.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-3.1-rc4/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh.c 2011-10-26 12:52:47.000000000 -0500
@@ -441,7 +441,15 @@ int scsi_dh_activate(struct request_queu
spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
sdev = q->queuedata;
- if (sdev && sdev->scsi_dh_data)
+ if (!sdev) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
+ err = SCSI_DH_NOSYS;
+ if (fn)
+ fn(data, err);
+ return err;
+ }
+
+ if (sdev->scsi_dh_data)
scsi_dh = sdev->scsi_dh_data->scsi_dh;
dev = get_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
if (!scsi_dh || !dev ||
--
dm-devel mailing list
dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
