On Wed, Dec 13 2017 at 4:46pm -0500, Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> wrote: > This patch avoids that the following message occurs sporadically > in the system log (revealing that pgpath->path.dev->name became > a dangling pointer): > > device-mapper: table: 254:2: device kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk?????????x0?a?????E??????????????E??????F?????2?????pF??????PF?????9[F??????]F???????#???????#??????'f????? not in table devices list > > This patch also fixes the following kernel crash: > > general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP > RIP: 0010:multipath_busy+0x77/0xd0 [dm_multipath] > Call Trace: > dm_mq_queue_rq+0x44/0x110 [dm_mod] > blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x73/0x440 > blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched+0x60/0xe0 > blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x11a/0x1a0 > __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x11f/0x1c0 > __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x95/0xe0 > blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x25/0x80 > blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x197/0x420 > blk_flush_plug_list+0xe4/0x270 > blk_finish_plug+0x27/0x40 > __do_page_cache_readahead+0x2b4/0x370 > force_page_cache_readahead+0xb4/0x110 > generic_file_read_iter+0x755/0x970 > __vfs_read+0xd2/0x140 > vfs_read+0x9b/0x140 > SyS_read+0x45/0xa0 > do_syscall_64+0x56/0x1a0 > entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 > > From the disassembly of multipath_busy (0x77 = 119): > > ./include/linux/blkdev.h: > 992 return bdev->bd_disk->queue; /* this is never NULL */ > 0x00000000000006b4 <+116>: mov (%rax),%rax > 0x00000000000006b7 <+119>: mov 0xe0(%rax),%rax > > Fixes: commit 2a0b4682e09d ("dm: convert dm_dev_internal.count from atomic_t to refcount_t") > Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: David Windsor <dwindsor@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.15 > --- > drivers/md/dm-table.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c > index 88130b5d95f9..ee5c389e7256 100644 > --- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c > @@ -459,6 +459,8 @@ int dm_get_device(struct dm_target *ti, const char *path, fmode_t mode, > if (r) > return r; > refcount_inc(&dd->count); > + } else { > + refcount_inc(&dd->count); > } > > *result = dd->dm_dev; > -- > 2.15.1 > I've had a fix for this staged in linux-next for a while. Will be sending it to Linus tomorrow, see: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.15&id=afc567a4977b2d798e05153dd131a3c8d4758c0c BTW, there was no need to cc: stable given that it'll get fixed in 4.15 (issue was introduced during the 4.15 merge). Mike -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel