Hello, I've encountered a BUG that I've experienced during hot removal on an ext4-formatted nvme device undergoing writes. I have been able to verify that 4.5, 4.6, 4.10.12, 4.11, and 4.12-rc1 show similar issues (the v4.6 trace below shows issues with block that have already been fixed). I'm using VMD hardware for my hotplug controller so 4.5 is as far back as I can go (maybe someone else can verify on non-VMD hardware?). To reproduce: 1) mkfs.ext4 <nvme> 2) mount <nvme> <mnt> 3) dd if=/dev/zero of=<mnt>/file bs=1M count=10000 4) Hot remove the drive while above is writing >From what I can tell, the ext4 sb is trying to be committed in the error path. There is supposed to be a check if the device is still alive via block_device_ejected(), but my guess is that there is a race between the removal/deletion in genhd and this check. I would appreciate any help resolving this. Here are the traces for v4.11 and v4.6: v4.11: [ 217.509412] EXT4-fs (nvme1n1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 300.232914] pciehp 10000:0d:00.0:pcie204: Slot(0-1): Card not present [ 300.241468] nvme 10000:0f:00.0: PME# disabled [ 300.907560] nvme1n1: detected capacity change from 400088457216 to 0 [ 300.916727] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk nvme1n1 [ 300.941164] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev nvme1n1, sector 1048576 [ 300.949889] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev nvme1n1, sector 1048832 [ 300.958608] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev nvme1n1, sector 1049088 [ 300.967327] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev nvme1n1, sector 1049344 [ 300.976044] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev nvme1n1, sector 1049600 [ 300.984762] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev nvme1n1, sector 1049856 [ 300.993469] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev nvme1n1, sector 1050112 [ 301.002563] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev nvme1n1, sector 1050368 [ 301.011228] EXT4-fs warning (device nvme1n1): ext4_end_bio:313: I/O error -5 writing to inode 12 (offset 0 size 2101248 starting block 131328) [ 301.028172] Buffer I/O error on device nvme1n1, logical block 131072 [ 301.036604] Buffer I/O error on device nvme1n1, logical block 131073 [ 301.045047] Buffer I/O error on device nvme1n1, logical block 131074 [ 301.053476] Buffer I/O error on device nvme1n1, logical block 131075 [ 301.061903] Buffer I/O error on device nvme1n1, logical block 131076 [ 301.070332] Buffer I/O error on device nvme1n1, logical block 131077 [ 301.078760] Buffer I/O error on device nvme1n1, logical block 131078 [ 301.122809] Buffer I/O error on device nvme1n1, logical block 131079 [ 301.165647] Buffer I/O error on device nvme1n1, logical block 131080 [ 301.208168] Buffer I/O error on device nvme1n1, logical block 131081 [ 301.250531] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev nvme1n1, sector 1050624 [ 301.292612] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev nvme1n1, sector 1050880 [ 301.333576] EXT4-fs warning (device nvme1n1): ext4_end_bio:313: I/O error -5 writing to inode 12 (offset 0 size 3149824 starting block 131584) [ 301.417798] EXT4-fs warning (device nvme1n1): ext4_end_bio:313: I/O error -5 writing to inode 12 (offset 0 size 4198400 starting block 131840) [ 301.506349] EXT4-fs warning (device nvme1n1): ext4_end_bio:313: I/O error -5 writing to inode 12 (offset 0 size 5246976 starting block 132096) [ 301.600295] EXT4-fs warning (device nvme1n1): ext4_end_bio:313: I/O error -5 writing to inode 12 (offset 0 size 6295552 starting block 132352) [ 301.697846] EXT4-fs warning (device nvme1n1): ext4_end_bio:313: I/O error -5 writing to inode 12 (offset 0 size 7344128 starting block 132608) [ 301.800529] EXT4-fs warning (device nvme1n1): ext4_end_bio:313: I/O error -5 writing to inode 12 (offset 0 size 8388608 starting block 132864) [ 301.908730] EXT4-fs warning (device nvme1n1): ext4_end_bio:313: I/O error -5 writing to inode 12 (offset 0 size 8388608 starting block 133120) [ 302.019761] EXT4-fs warning (device nvme1n1): ext4_end_bio:313: I/O error -5 writing to inode 12 (offset 8388608 size 2101248 starting block 133376) [ 302.135856] EXT4-fs warning (device nvme1n1): ext4_end_bio:313: I/O error -5 writing to inode 12 (offset 8388608 size 3149824 starting block 133632) [ 302.324114] EXT4-fs error (device nvme1n1): ext4_wait_block_bitmap:503: comm kworker/u577:1: Cannot read block bitmap - block_group = 5, block_bitmap = 1077 [ 302.457958] Buffer I/O error on dev nvme1n1, logical block 0, lost sync page write [ 302.524509] EXT4-fs (nvme1n1): Delayed block allocation failed for inode 12 at logical offset 32768 with max blocks 2048 with error 5 [ 302.659921] EXT4-fs (nvme1n1): This should not happen!! Data will be lost [ 302.659921] [ 302.793498] JBD2: Detected IO errors while flushing file data on nvme1n1-8 [ 302.797644] EXT4-fs error (device nvme1n1): ext4_wait_block_bitmap:503: comm kworker/u577:1: Cannot read block bitmap - block_group = 5, block_bitmap = 1077 [ 302.797699] EXT4-fs (nvme1n1): previous I/O error to superblock detected [ 302.797709] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 302.797711] kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:3103! [ 302.797713] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN [ 302.797714] Modules linked in: ext4 jbd2 mbcache vfat fat iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support intel_rapl x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm btrfs xor irqbypass crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel pcbc aesni_intel crypto_simd cryptd glue_helper raid6_pq pcspkr i2c_i801 i2c_core lpc_ich shpchp sg ioatdma dca wmi ipmi_si ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler nfit libnvdimm acpi_pad tpm_crb acpi_power_meter ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sd_mod crc32c_intel e1000e ahci nvme ptp libahci nvme_core pps_core libata [ 302.797762] CPU: 41 PID: 513 Comm: kworker/u577:1 Not tainted 4.11.0 #62 [ 302.797764] Hardware name: Intel Corporation PURLEY/PURLEY, BIOS PLYDCRB1.86B.0121.R04.1702012027 02/01/2017 [ 302.797771] Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-259:2) [ 302.797774] task: ffff88016d490000 task.stack: ffff88016d498000 [ 302.797778] RIP: 0010:submit_bh_wbc+0x277/0x2a0 [ 302.797780] RSP: 0018:ffff88016d49f248 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 302.797783] RAX: 0000000000200005 RBX: ffff880155c2a498 RCX: ffffffff81384751 [ 302.797785] RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: 0000000000020000 RDI: ffff880155c2a498 [ 302.797787] RBP: ffff88016d49f290 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffed00476881b7 [ 302.797788] R10: ffff88016d49f3e0 R11: ffffed00476881b6 R12: 0000000000020000 [ 302.797790] R13: 0000000000020000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 302.797792] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88017a440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 302.797794] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 302.797796] CR2: 00007faa8d9ae140 CR3: 000000000200d000 CR4: 00000000007406e0 [ 302.797798] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 302.797799] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 302.797800] PKRU: 55555554 [ 302.797801] Call Trace: [ 302.797806] ? __wake_up_bit+0x45/0x90 [ 302.797810] __sync_dirty_buffer+0x84/0x130 [ 302.797851] ext4_commit_super+0x3e8/0x4f0 [ext4] [ 302.797886] __ext4_error+0xa3/0x140 [ext4] [ 302.797889] ? autoremove_wake_function+0xa0/0xa0 [ 302.797920] ext4_wait_block_bitmap+0xbd/0xe0 [ext4] [ 302.797956] ext4_mb_init_cache+0x35e/0xb10 [ext4] [ 302.797992] ext4_mb_init_group+0x1fc/0x330 [ext4] [ 302.798028] ext4_mb_good_group+0x274/0x280 [ext4] [ 302.798065] ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x4d0/0x750 [ext4] [ 302.798101] ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x93f/0x1640 [ext4] [ 302.798105] ? kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xc0 [ 302.798108] ? __kmalloc+0x12e/0x230 [ 302.798142] ? ext4_find_extent+0x3cf/0x450 [ext4] [ 302.798178] ? ext4_ext_search_right+0x108/0x490 [ext4] [ 302.798213] ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1128/0x15c0 [ext4] [ 302.798245] ext4_map_blocks+0x1b7/0xa20 [ext4] [ 302.798277] ext4_writepages+0xa71/0x13e0 [ext4] [ 302.798282] do_writepages+0x4b/0x70 [ 302.798284] ? do_writepages+0x4b/0x70 [ 302.798288] __writeback_single_inode+0x6a/0x4a0 [ 302.798292] writeback_sb_inodes+0x271/0x650 [ 302.798296] wb_writeback+0x1db/0x430 [ 302.798299] wb_workfn+0x19a/0x590 [ 302.798302] ? wb_workfn+0x19a/0x590 [ 302.798307] ? finish_task_switch+0x9b/0x330 [ 302.798310] process_one_work+0x2a2/0x680 [ 302.798313] worker_thread+0x89/0x790 [ 302.798316] kthread+0x18c/0x1e0 [ 302.798318] ? rescuer_thread+0x600/0x600 [ 302.798321] ? kthread_park+0xd0/0xd0 [ 302.798324] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40 [ 302.798325] Code: 0f 45 e8 45 09 f5 e8 09 86 f7 ff 45 89 6c 24 14 4c 89 e7 e8 3c ca 13 00 48 83 c4 20 31 c0 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 0f 0b <0f> 0b 48 8d 43 20 48 89 45 d0 48 8d 43 10 48 89 45 b8 e9 a8 fe [ 302.798363] RIP: submit_bh_wbc+0x277/0x2a0 RSP: ffff88016d49f248 [ 302.798531] ---[ end trace 273a42299ae29efd ]--- [ 302.802839] ================================================================== v4.6: [ 401.567515] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 401.567526] WARNING: CPU: 16 PID: 730 at lib/list_debug.c:33 __list_add+0xbf/0xf0 [ 401.567530] list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (ffffe8fffc600548), but was ffff88016e540000. (prev=ffff88016e540000). [ 401.567579] Modules linked in: ext4 jbd2 mbcache vfat fat x86_pkg_temp_thermal coretemp kvm_intel kvm irqbypass crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel glue_helper lrw gf128mul iTCO_wdt ablk_helper cryptd iTCO_vendor_support btrfs xor pcspkr raid6_pq i2c_i801 sg i2c_core lpc_ich shpchp wmi ipmi_devintf ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler nfit fjes tpm_crb libnvdimm acpi_power_meter acpi_pad ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sd_mod crc32c_intel ahci e1000e nvme libahci ptp nvme_core pps_core libata [ 401.567584] CPU: 16 PID: 730 Comm: kworker/u898:2 Not tainted 4.6.0 #64 [ 401.567586] Hardware name: Intel Corporation PURLEY/PURLEY, BIOS PLYDCRB1.86B.0121.R04.1702012027 02/01/2017 [ 401.567595] Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-259:2) [ 401.567600] ffffffff81e50fc1 00000000b7d5bb37 ffff88023207ee88 ffffffff814b0578 [ 401.567604] ffff88023207eee0 0000000000000000 ffff88023207eed0 ffffffff810bf821 [ 401.567608] ffff880230c9dd00 00000021fc6005c0 ffff88016e540000 ffff88016e540000 [ 401.567609] Call Trace: [ 401.567619] [<ffffffff814b0578>] dump_stack+0x63/0x8b [ 401.567626] [<ffffffff810bf821>] __warn+0x111/0x130 [ 401.567630] [<ffffffff810bf89f>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5f/0x80 [ 401.567633] [<ffffffff814ddbff>] __list_add+0xbf/0xf0 [ 401.567640] [<ffffffff8147e008>] blk_mq_insert_requests+0x168/0x2a0 [ 401.567645] [<ffffffff8147f41a>] blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x1ca/0x1f0 [ 401.567651] [<ffffffff8146d203>] blk_flush_plug_list+0x133/0x330 [ 401.567659] [<ffffffff81a0871f>] io_schedule_timeout+0x6f/0x1a0 [ 401.567663] [<ffffffff81a0a139>] bit_wait_io+0x29/0x80 [ 401.567667] [<ffffffff81a09b0f>] __wait_on_bit+0x7f/0xd0 [ 401.567671] [<ffffffff81a0a110>] ? bit_wait_timeout+0xd0/0xd0 [ 401.567675] [<ffffffff81a0a110>] ? bit_wait_timeout+0xd0/0xd0 [ 401.567679] [<ffffffff81a09be1>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x81/0xb0 [ 401.567686] [<ffffffff8112a3b0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x50/0x50 [ 401.567692] [<ffffffff81343683>] __sync_dirty_buffer+0x103/0x120 [ 401.567743] [<ffffffffa0dd9609>] ext4_commit_super+0x3a9/0x4a0 [ext4] [ 401.567794] [<ffffffffa0dd9b1f>] __ext4_error+0x7f/0x120 [ext4] [ 401.567827] [<ffffffffa0d98c7d>] ext4_wait_block_bitmap+0xbd/0xe0 [ext4] [ 401.567868] [<ffffffffa0dfd2ce>] ext4_mb_init_cache+0x35e/0xb00 [ext4] [ 401.567906] [<ffffffffa0dfdc6c>] ext4_mb_init_group+0x1fc/0x330 [ext4] [ 401.567944] [<ffffffffa0dfe656>] ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp+0x636/0x680 [ext4] [ 401.567982] [<ffffffffa0e01dee>] ext4_mb_find_by_goal+0x15e/0x640 [ext4] [ 401.568020] [<ffffffffa0e02ff6>] ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0xd6/0x770 [ext4] [ 401.568025] [<ffffffff812c1b36>] ? ___slab_alloc+0x146/0x450 [ 401.568057] [<ffffffffa0d98a59>] ? ext4_get_group_no_and_offset+0x99/0xb0 [ext4] [ 401.568100] [<ffffffffa0e05eb1>] ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x6b1/0x960 [ext4] [ 401.568137] [<ffffffffa0deacc8>] ? ext4_ext_search_right+0x108/0x490 [ext4] [ 401.568174] [<ffffffffa0ded672>] ? ext4_find_extent+0x472/0x4c0 [ext4] [ 401.568211] [<ffffffffa0df457b>] ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x112b/0x15c0 [ext4] [ 401.568216] [<ffffffff8123a3f4>] ? find_get_pages_tag+0x214/0x230 [ 401.568250] [<ffffffffa0da0800>] ? __ext4_new_inode+0xbb0/0x1d20 [ext4] [ 401.568283] [<ffffffffa0da6257>] ext4_map_blocks+0x1b7/0x800 [ext4] [ 401.568317] [<ffffffffa0dac151>] ext4_writepages+0x951/0x1280 [ext4] [ 401.568323] [<ffffffff8124e9db>] do_writepages+0x4b/0x70 [ 401.568326] [<ffffffff8133373a>] __writeback_single_inode+0x6a/0x480 [ 401.568330] [<ffffffff813342ad>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x26d/0x660 [ 401.568334] [<ffffffff8133474c>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0xac/0x100 [ 401.568338] [<ffffffff81334c6c>] wb_writeback+0x3fc/0x420 [ 401.568341] [<ffffffff813355cb>] wb_workfn+0x32b/0x590 [ 401.568347] [<ffffffff810e3bd6>] process_one_work+0x256/0x620 [ 401.568351] [<ffffffff810e4c55>] worker_thread+0x85/0x750 [ 401.568355] [<ffffffff810e4bd0>] ? rescuer_thread+0x520/0x520 [ 401.568358] [<ffffffff810ece22>] kthread+0x122/0x140 [ 401.568362] [<ffffffff81a0e582>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40 [ 401.568365] [<ffffffff810ecd00>] ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80 [ 401.568383] ---[ end trace 53be6edc49257ee0 ]--- [ 401.568384] ------------[ cut here ]------------