On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, Coly Li wrote: > On 2017/8/13 下午8:22, Jorg Bornschein wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just updated my kernel to 4.12.6 and I cant access my bcache partitions anymore: it seems it can't register the backing devices. I have a couple of '/usr/lib/udev/bcache-register /dev/dm-?' processes in state D and during boot I see the attached dmesg logs. > > > > My cache-set shows up in /sys/fs/bcache, but any interaction with the files therein block and I get more 'D' processes. Similarly, trying to explicitly register a backing device by running 'echo /dev/dm-? > /sys/fs/bcache/register' blocks indefinitely. I should probably mention that my backing devices are encrypted and get created by cryptsetup/crypttab. > > > > > > Any ideas how to get this working again / how to debug this? > > > > From the code of v4.12.6, it seems like sysfs entries can be accessed > before allocator thread assigned to a cache set. Then I assume in > bch_bucket_alloc() when waking up ca->alloc_thread, a NULL pointer sent > in and finally trigger a NULL pointer deference on p->pi_lock. > > A fast fix can be: > @@ -404,7 +404,8 @@ long bch_bucket_alloc(struct cache *ca, unsigned > reserve, bool wait) > > finish_wait(&ca->set->bucket_wait, &w); > out: > - wake_up_process(ca->alloc_thread); > + if (ca->alloc_thread) > + wake_up_process(ca->alloc_thread); > > trace_bcache_alloc(ca, reserve); > > But for a proper fix, we should not open user space access interface > before necessary resources are ready. Has this been fixed elsewhere? The suggested quick-fix doesn't appear in 4.14-rc6 so maybe it was solved some other way? -- Eric Wheeler > > Coly > > > > > > > > -- dmesg -- > > [ 20.250680] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000071c > > [ 20.266915] IP: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x29/0x50 > > [ 20.275259] PGD 6205dc067 > > [ 20.275259] P4D 6205dc067 > > [ 20.283582] PUD 62082b067 > > [ 20.291696] PMD 0 > > [ 20.314622] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP > > [ 20.322296] Modules linked in: snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic ext4 crc16 jbd2 fscrypto mbcache nvidia_drm(PO) nvidia_modeset(PO) nvidia(PO) joydev input_leds iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support bcache eeepc_wmi asus_wmi sparse_keymap rfkill evdev mxm_wmi mac_hid intel_rapl x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm irqbypass intel_cstate intel_rapl_perf pcspkr snd_hda_intel drm_kms_helper snd_hda_codec e1000e drm mei_me syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops snd_soc_rt5640 snd_hda_core i2c_i801 lpc_ich ptp snd_hwdep mei pps_core shpchp snd_soc_ssm4567 battery snd_soc_rl6231 snd_soc_core snd_compress snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_pcm snd_timer tpm_infineon snd wmi video soundcore elan_i2c ac97_bus i2c_hid i2c_designware_platform snd_soc_sst_acpi 8250_dw i2c_designware_core snd_soc_sst_match > > [ 20.421693] spi_pxa2xx_platform button acpi_pad thermal fan tpm_tis tpm_tis_core tpm sch_fq_codel nfsd auth_rpcgss oid_registry nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc vboxnetflt(O) vboxnetadp(O) pci_stub vboxpci(O) vboxdrv(O) sg ip_tables x_tables btrfs xor raid6_pq algif_skcipher af_alg dm_crypt dm_mod dax sd_mod hid_generic usbhid hid crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel pcbc aesni_intel aes_x86_64 crypto_simd glue_helper cryptd ahci libahci xhci_pci libata ehci_pci xhci_hcd ehci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore usb_common serio sdhci_acpi sdhci led_class mmc_core > > [ 20.508586] CPU: 1 PID: 442 Comm: bcache_allocato Tainted: P O 4.12.6-1-ARCH #1 > > [ 20.532011] Hardware name: ASUS All Series/Z97-A, BIOS 1204 06/20/2014 > > [ 20.543827] task: ffffa08b20702ac0 task.stack: ffffc3d4040b8000 > > [ 20.555664] RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x29/0x50 > > [ 20.567536] RSP: 0000:ffffc3d4040bbd18 EFLAGS: 00010046 > > [ 20.579663] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: 0000000000000000 > > [ 20.592200] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: 000000000000071c > > [ 20.604749] RBP: ffffc3d4040bbd20 R08: ffffffffc08b1aa0 R09: 0000000000000400 > > [ 20.617538] R10: 00000000000001ff R11: ffffc3d403e01000 R12: 000000000000071c > > [ 20.630385] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000000 > > [ 20.642974] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa08b3ec80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > > [ 20.667306] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > > [ 20.679479] CR2: 000000000000071c CR3: 000000061f609000 CR4: 00000000001406e0 > > [ 20.691625] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > > [ 20.703440] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > > [ 20.714882] Call Trace: > > [ 20.725912] try_to_wake_up+0x40/0x440 > > [ 20.736717] wake_up_process+0x15/0x20 > > [ 20.747215] bch_bucket_alloc+0xa5/0x350 [bcache] > > [ 20.757541] ? wake_bit_function+0x60/0x60 > > [ 20.767605] bch_prio_write+0x186/0x330 [bcache] > > [ 20.777471] bch_allocator_thread+0x569/0xc80 [bcache] > > [ 20.787124] kthread+0x125/0x140 > > [ 20.796430] ? bch_invalidate_one_bucket+0x80/0x80 [bcache] > > [ 20.805724] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x70/0x70 > > [ 20.814722] ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30 > > [ 20.823404] Code: 40 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53 9c 58 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 c3 fa 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 65 ff 05 3e 03 9b 63 31 c0 ba 01 00 00 00 <f0> 0f b1 17 85 c0 75 06 48 89 d8 5b 5d c3 89 c6 e8 e2 14 a7 ff > > [ 20.849925] RIP: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x29/0x50 RSP: ffffc3d4040bbd18 > > [ 20.858827] CR2: 000000000000071c > > [ 20.867491] ---[ end trace a9fcbcbb689c1804 ]--- > > [ 20.876143] note: bcache_allocato[442] exited with preempt_count 1 > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > -- > Coly Li >
