On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:30:14 +0100
Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 20/11/2015 13:10, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 00:23 -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> >> It's pretty much guaranteed a block layer bug, most likely in the
> >> merge bios to request infrastucture where we don't obey the merging
> >> limits properly.
> >>
> >> Does either of you have a known good and first known bad kernel?
> >
> > Not me, I've only hit it one or two times. All I can say is I have hit it in
> > 4.4-rc1.
> >
> > Laurent, can you narrow it down at all?
>
> It seems that the panic is triggered by the commit bdced438acd8 ("block:
> setup bi_phys_segments after splitting") which has been pulled by the
> merge d9734e0d1ccf ("Merge branch 'for-4.4/core' of
> git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block").
>
> My system is panicing promptly when running a kernel built at
> d9734e0d1ccf, while reverting the commit bdced438acd8, it can run hours
> without panicing.
>
> This being said, I can't explain what's going wrong.
>
> May Ming shed some light here ?
Laurent, looks there is one bug in blk_bio_segment_split(), would you
mind testing the following patch to see if it fixes your issue?
---
>From 6fc701231dcc000bc8bc4b9105583380d9aa31f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:47:13 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] block: fix segment split
Inside blk_bio_segment_split(), previous bvec pointer('bvprvp')
always points to the iterator local variable, which is obviously
wrong, so fix it by pointing to the local variable of 'bvprv'.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/blk-merge.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
index de5716d8..f2efe8a 100644
--- a/block/blk-merge.c
+++ b/block/blk-merge.c
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static struct bio *blk_bio_segment_split(struct request_queue *q,
seg_size += bv.bv_len;
bvprv = bv;
- bvprvp = &bv;
+ bvprvp = &bvprv;
sectors += bv.bv_len >> 9;
continue;
}
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ new_segment:
nsegs++;
bvprv = bv;
- bvprvp = &bv;
+ bvprvp = &bvprv;
seg_size = bv.bv_len;
sectors += bv.bv_len >> 9;
}
--
1.9.1
Thanks,
Ming
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