On 14/01/2019 05:20, Daniel Axtens wrote: > Hi, > > We have a couple of machines that are experiencing NULL pointer > dereferences when executing fstrim. > > It can be reliably reproduced on at least: > - HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9/ProLiant DL360 Gen9, BIOS P89 12/27/2015 > - Cisco Systems Inc UCSC-C240-M5L/UCSC-C240-M5L > > In both cases we have: > 1) LVM/devmapper involved (bcache backing device is LVM volume) > 2) writeback cache involved (bcache cache_mode is writeback) > > On the HP box, we can reliably reproduce it with: > > # echo writeback > /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/cache_mode # not sure if this is required > # mount /dev/bcache0 /test > # for i in {0..10}; do file="$(mktemp /test/zero.XXX)"; dd if=/dev/zero of="$file" bs=1M count=256; sync; rm $file; done; fstrim -v /test > This has been Oopsing in the first try. > > We have seen it on mainline (commit 40a31da), and as far back as v4.15. > > The panic reads as follows: > > [ 421.796849] EXT4-fs (bcache0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) > [ 529.803060] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 > [ 530.183928] #PF error: [normal kernel read fault] > [ 530.412392] PGD 8000001f42163067 P4D 8000001f42163067 PUD 1f42168067 PMD 0 > [ 530.750887] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI > [ 530.920869] CPU: 10 PID: 4167 Comm: fstrim Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.0.0-rc1+ #3 > [ 531.290204] Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9/ProLiant DL360 Gen9, BIOS P89 12/27/2015 > [ 531.693137] RIP: 0010:blk_queue_split+0x148/0x620 > [ 531.922205] Code: 60 38 89 55 a0 45 31 db 45 31 f6 45 31 c9 31 ff 89 4d 98 85 db 0f 84 7f 04 00 00 44 8b 6d 98 4c 89 ee 48 c1 e6 04 49 03 70 78 <8b> 46 08 44 8b 56 0c 48 8b 16 44 29 e0 39 d8 48 89 55 a8 0f 47 c3 > [ 532.838634] RSP: 0018:ffffb9b708df39b0 EFLAGS: 00010246 > [ 533.093571] RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: 0000000000046000 RCX: 0000000000000000 > [ 533.441865] RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 > [ 533.789922] RBP: ffffb9b708df3a48 R08: ffff940d3b3fdd20 R09: 0000000000000000 > [ 534.137512] R10: ffffb9b708df3958 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 > [ 534.485329] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff940d39212020 > [ 534.833319] FS: 00007efec26e3840(0000) GS:ffff940d1f480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > [ 535.224098] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > [ 535.504318] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 0000001f4e256004 CR4: 00000000001606e0 > [ 535.851759] Call Trace: > [ 535.970308] ? mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x20 > [ 536.174152] ? bch_data_insert+0x42/0xd0 [bcache] > [ 536.403399] blk_mq_make_request+0x97/0x4f0 > [ 536.607036] generic_make_request+0x1e2/0x410 > [ 536.819164] submit_bio+0x73/0x150 > [ 536.980168] ? submit_bio+0x73/0x150 > [ 537.149731] ? bio_associate_blkg_from_css+0x3b/0x60 > [ 537.391595] ? _cond_resched+0x1a/0x50 > [ 537.573774] submit_bio_wait+0x59/0x90 > [ 537.756105] blkdev_issue_discard+0x80/0xd0 > [ 537.959590] ext4_trim_fs+0x4a9/0x9e0 > [ 538.137636] ? ext4_trim_fs+0x4a9/0x9e0 > [ 538.324087] ext4_ioctl+0xea4/0x1530 > [ 538.497712] ? _copy_to_user+0x2a/0x40 > [ 538.679632] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa6/0x600 > [ 538.853127] ? __do_sys_newfstat+0x44/0x70 > [ 539.051951] ksys_ioctl+0x6d/0x80 > [ 539.212785] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a/0x20 > [ 539.394918] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x110 > [ 539.568674] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 > > Looking at the disassembly for blk_queue_split, it appears that the > issue is that bi_io_vec is NULL. The address of the bio is in r8, and > indeed bi_io_vec is NULL: > > crash> struct bio ffff940d3b3fdd20 > struct bio { > bi_next = 0x0, > bi_disk = 0xffff940c17c56800, > bi_opf = 1, > bi_flags = 1540, > bi_ioprio = 0, > bi_write_hint = 0, > bi_status = 0 '\000', > bi_partno = 0 '\000', > bi_phys_segments = 0, > bi_seg_front_size = 0, > bi_seg_back_size = 0, > bi_iter = { > bi_sector = 212452816, > bi_size = 286720, > bi_idx = 0, > bi_bvec_done = 0 > }, > __bi_remaining = { > counter = 1 > }, > bi_end_io = 0xffffffffc0455810 <bch_data_insert_endio>, > bi_private = 0xffff940c04f698a0, > bi_blkg = 0xffff940c129a7400, > bi_issue = { > value = 1261008425052734119 > }, > { > bi_integrity = 0x0 > }, > bi_vcnt = 0, > bi_max_vecs = 0, > __bi_cnt = { > counter = 1 > }, > bi_io_vec = 0x0, > bi_pool = 0xffff940d3a280de0, > bi_inline_vecs = 0xffff940d3b3fdda8 > } > > > The stack being a bit odd, we used ftrace to get a function graph > trace. That clarified things a bit - here is the chronology: > > Looking at generic_make_request(), we see: > > bio_list_init(&bio_list_on_stack[0]); > current->bio_list = bio_list_on_stack; > do { > struct request_queue *q = bio->bi_disk->queue; > blk_mq_req_flags_t flags = bio->bi_opf & REQ_NOWAIT ? > BLK_MQ_REQ_NOWAIT : 0; > > if (likely(blk_queue_enter(q, flags) == 0)) { > struct bio_list lower, same; > > /* Create a fresh bio_list for all subordinate requests */ > bio_list_on_stack[1] = bio_list_on_stack[0]; > bio_list_init(&bio_list_on_stack[0]); > ret = q->make_request_fn(q, bio); > > On the first iteration of the loop, q->make_request_function invokes > cached_dev_make_request(). That calls generic_make_request a few times - > making what I understand to be requests to write out to the underlying > device. Then cached_dev_make_request returns, and in the next iteration > of the loop, one of the new entries is pulled off the list, > blk_mq_make_request attempts to call blk_queue_split on it, and that > explodes. > > I'm not quite sure why the new bios have bi_io_vec as NULL - it would > seem to imply the original bio had it as NULL too. I don't know why > that would be and I haven't been able to trace that far backwards just > yet. > > I'm having some trouble unpicking the closures that make up bcache, so > I was hoping someone would be able to point me in the right direction? > > As I said, we can reproduce this easily so we're happy to gather any > extra information required or test anything. > > Regards, > Daniel > +linux-block Cheers, Guilherme