Re: [BUG REPORT] General protection fault while discarding extents on XFS on next-20240305

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On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 04:35:09AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 12:49:29PM +0530, Chandan Babu R wrote:
> > The above *probably* occured because __blkdev_issue_discard() noticed a pending
> > signal, processed the bio, freed the bio and returned a non-NULL bio pointer
> > to the caller (i.e. xfs_discard_extents()).
> > 
> > xfs_discard_extents() then tries to process the freed bio once again.
> 
> Yes, __blkdev_issue_discard really needs to clear *biop to NULL for
> this case, i.e.:
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c
> index dc8e35d0a51d6d..26850d4895cdaf 100644
> --- a/block/blk-lib.c
> +++ b/block/blk-lib.c
> @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ int __blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
>  		cond_resched();
>  		if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
>  			await_bio_chain(bio);
> +			*biop = NULL;
>  			return -EINTR;
>  		}
>  	}

But everyone who calls this already sets their local bio to NULL by
default, and __blkdev_issue_discard updates *biop only on success, so
'*biop' should already be NULL here. ?




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