Hello, On Mon 03-10-11 01:44:11, Justin Gottula wrote: > Please tell me if this is the right place to report this; it appears to > be an ext4-specific issue. Yes, it is the right place. Thanks for your report. > I had a kernel panic occur today during some particularly heavy hard > drive activity on an ext4 filesystem, running a bleeding edge kernel > (3.1-rc8). Unfortunately it's not an easily reproducible bug, it was > pretty much a random occurrence. Have you seen the bug since the report? > Here's the excerpt from dmesg (these were the only pertinent lines): > > [ 5922.546229] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at > (null) > [ 5922.546272] IP: [<ffffffffa00ccac8>] jbd2_journal_file_inode+0x38/0xf0 [jbd2] > [ 5922.546308] PGD 195b3f067 PUD 1c1a70067 PMD 0 > [ 5922.546339] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP > [ 5922.546361] CPU 1 > [ 5922.546370] Modules linked in: it87 hwmon_vid coretemp ipv6 vboxnetflt > vboxnetadp vboxdrv fuse loop uvcvideo joydev videodev snd_usb_audio usbhid > usb_storage media hid xpad v4l2_compat_ioctl32 ff_memless snd_usbmidi_lib uas > evdev ppdev radeon sg snd_hda_codec_hdmi parport_pc snd_hda_codec_realtek > i2c_i801 psmouse parport serio_raw iTCO_wdt ttm floppy iTCO_vendor_support > drm_kms_helper drm snd_oxygen snd_hda_intel snd_oxygen_lib i2c_algo_bit > processor intel_agp snd_hda_codec intel_gtt i2c_core snd_hwdep button > snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq > snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mixer_oss snd > soundcore pcspkr r8169 mii xhci_hcd btrfs lzo zlib_deflate libcrc32c crc32c ext4 > mbcache jbd2 crc16 uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore sr_mod cdrom ahci libahci sd_mod > pata_jmicron libata scsi_mod > [ 5922.546911] > [ 5922.546919] Pid: 951, comm: flush-8:16 Not tainted 3.1.0-rc8-mainline #1 > Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP35-DS3R/EP35-DS3R > [ 5922.546963] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa00ccac8>] [<ffffffffa00ccac8>] > jbd2_journal_file_inode+0x38/0xf0 [jbd2] > [ 5922.546999] RSP: 0000:ffff88020fda5960 EFLAGS: 00010246 > [ 5922.547019] RAX: 00000000fffffffb RBX: ffff8801293f5500 RCX: 0000000000000001 > [ 5922.547043] RDX: ffff88020e5c7c00 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff880202ada750 > [ 5922.547067] RBP: ffff88020fda5980 R08: 00000000182c0e00 R09: 0000000000000001 > [ 5922.547091] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 > [ 5922.547115] R13: ffff88020fdb0800 R14: ffff880202ada750 R15: ffff88004f00e890 > [ 5922.547139] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88021fc80000(0000) > knlGS:0000000000000000 > [ 5922.547166] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b > [ 5922.547185] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000014411a000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 > [ 5922.547209] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > [ 5922.547233] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > [ 5922.547256] Process flush-8:16 (pid: 951, threadinfo ffff88020fda4000, task > ffff88021012b250) > [ 5922.547284] Stack: > [ 5922.547296] ffff88020fda5a80 000000000000bada 0000000000000001 > ffff880202ada750 > [ 5922.547334] ffff88020fda5a00 ffffffffa00ef35c ffffea00046022c0 > ffffffffa00efd3b > [ 5922.547369] ffffea00081e0840 0000000000000000 ffffffffa0125630 > 00000000072e62da > [ 5922.547403] Call Trace: > [ 5922.547419] [<ffffffffa00ef35c>] mpage_da_map_and_submit+0x2bc/0x400 [ext4] > [ 5922.547449] [<ffffffffa00efd3b>] ? ext4_da_writepages+0x35b/0x6b0 [ext4] > [ 5922.547476] [<ffffffffa00efd86>] ext4_da_writepages+0x3a6/0x6b0 [ext4] > [ 5922.547503] [<ffffffff81108534>] do_writepages+0x24/0x40 > [ 5922.547523] [<ffffffff811848a3>] writeback_single_inode+0x183/0x490 > [ 5922.547546] [<ffffffff81184faa>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x1aa/0x270 > [ 5922.547567] [<ffffffff8118510e>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x9e/0xd0 > [ 5922.547589] [<ffffffff811854db>] wb_writeback+0x39b/0x3d0 > [ 5922.547610] [<ffffffff811855a8>] wb_check_old_data_flush+0x98/0xa0 > [ 5922.547632] [<ffffffff811865fc>] wb_do_writeback+0x1ac/0x250 > [ 5922.547653] [<ffffffff81071770>] ? init_timer_deferrable_key+0x30/0x30 > [ 5922.547676] [<ffffffff8118672c>] bdi_writeback_thread+0x8c/0x340 > [ 5922.547698] [<ffffffff811866a0>] ? wb_do_writeback+0x250/0x250 > [ 5922.547720] [<ffffffff810846fc>] kthread+0x8c/0xa0 > [ 5922.547738] [<ffffffff81408734>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 > [ 5922.547759] [<ffffffff81084670>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x190/0x190 > [ 5922.547780] [<ffffffff81408730>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 > [ 5922.547797] Code: 89 65 e8 4c 89 6d f0 4c 89 75 f8 66 66 66 66 90 b8 fb ff ff > ff 48 8b 1f 49 89 f4 f6 47 14 04 4c 8b 2b 75 72 41 f6 45 00 02 75 6b > [ 5922.548006] RIP [<ffffffffa00ccac8>] jbd2_journal_file_inode+0x38/0xf0 > [jbd2] > [ 5922.548036] RSP <ffff88020fda5960> > [ 5922.548048] CR2: 0000000000000000 > [ 5922.607946] ---[ end trace 6f21f07839837a01 ]--- > > I learned how to make gdb give me the offending lines from the call stack. Let > me know if this is sufficient information or if there's a better way to do this: > > [<ffffffffa00ccac8>] jbd2_journal_file_inode+0x38/0xf0 [jbd2] > Line 2142 of "fs/jbd2/transaction.c" > [<ffffffffa00ef35c>] mpage_da_map_and_submit+0x2bc/0x400 [ext4] > Line 1478 of "fs/ext4/inode.c" > [<ffffffffa00efd3b>] ? ext4_da_writepages+0x35b/0x6b0 [ext4] > Line 2140 of "fs/ext4/inode.c" > [<ffffffffa00efd86>] ext4_da_writepages+0x3a6/0x6b0 [ext4] > Line 2160 of "fs/ext4/inode.c" > [<ffffffff81108534>] do_writepages+0x24/0x40 > Line 1264 of "mm/page-writeback.c" > [ 5922.547523] [<ffffffff811848a3>] writeback_single_inode+0x183/0x490 > Line 405 of "fs/fs-writeback.c" > > If you need my kernel config or other relevant details, I can provide them. I > still have the source tree, config, and other bits and pieces that I used to > build the kernel so I'm in a good position to help diagnose the problem. Thanks for those details. So the problem was that jinode was NULL (i.e. inode written back by ext4_da_writepages() didn't have EXT4(inode)->i_jinode allocated). Allocation of jinode happens when a file is opened for writing. So the question is, how an inode could get dirty data without being opened for writing. Did you do something unusual when the bug triggered? Something like defragmentation, inode migration, or other things? Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
