On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 05:06:03PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote: > Reverted the series on the top of today's linux-next fixed boot crashes. Umm... How about a reproducer (or bisect of vfs.git#work.dotdot, assuming it reproduces there)? > [ 53.027443][ T3519] BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000000 > [ 53.027480][ T3519] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000004dbfa4 > [ 53.027498][ T3519] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] > [ 53.027521][ T3519] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=256 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NUMA PowerNV > [ 53.027538][ T3519] Modules linked in: kvm_hv kvm ip_tables x_tables xfs sd_mod bnx2x ahci libahci mdio libata tg3 libphy firmware_class dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod > [ 53.027594][ T3519] CPU: 36 PID: 3519 Comm: polkitd Not tainted 5.6.0-rc7-next-20200324 #1 > [ 53.027618][ T3519] NIP: c0000000004dbfa4 LR: c0000000004dc040 CTR: 0000000000000000 > [ 53.027634][ T3519] REGS: c0002013879af810 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (5.6.0-rc7-next-20200324) > [ 53.027668][ T3519] MSR: 9000000000009033 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 24004422 XER: 20040000 > [ 53.027708][ T3519] CFAR: c0000000004dc044 DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0 > [ 53.027708][ T3519] GPR00: c0000000004dc040 c0002013879afaa0 c00000000165a500 0000000000000000 > [ 53.027708][ T3519] GPR04: c000000001511408 0000000000000000 c0002013879af834 0000000000000002 > [ 53.027708][ T3519] GPR08: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 > [ 53.027708][ T3519] GPR12: 0000000000004000 c000001ffffe1e00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 > [ 53.027708][ T3519] GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 > [ 53.027708][ T3519] GPR20: c000200ea1eacf38 c000201c8102f043 2f2f2f2f2f2f2f2f 0000000000000003 > [ 53.027708][ T3519] GPR24: 0000000000000000 c0002013879afbc8 fffffffffffff000 0000000000200000 > [ 53.027708][ T3519] GPR28: ffffffffffffffff 61c8864680b583eb 0000000000000000 0000000000002e2e > [ 53.027931][ T3519] NIP [c0000000004dbfa4] link_path_walk+0x284/0x4c0 > __d_entry_type at include/linux/dcache.h:389 > (inlined by) d_can_lookup at include/linux/dcache.h:404 > (inlined by) link_path_walk at fs/namei.c:2178 ... and apparently NULL nd->path.dentry there. After walk_component() having returned NULL. Which means either handle_dots() returning NULL or step_into() doing the same. The former means either (for "..") step_into() having returned NULL, or nd->path.dentry left unchanged. So we either have step_into() returning NULL with nd->path.dentry ending up NULL, or we'd entered link_path_walk() with nd->path.dentry being NULL (it must have been that way on the entry, or we would've barfed on the previous iteration). 1) step_into() returns NULL either after if (likely(!d_is_symlink(path.dentry)) || ((flags & WALK_TRAILING) && !(nd->flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)) || (flags & WALK_NOFOLLOW)) { /* not a symlink or should not follow */ if (!(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU)) { dput(nd->path.dentry); if (nd->path.mnt != path.mnt) mntput(nd->path.mnt); } nd->path = path; nd->inode = inode; nd->seq = seq; return NULL; in which case nd->path.dentry is left equal to path.dentry, which can't be NULL (we would've oopsed on d_is_symlink() if it had been) or it's pick_link() returning NULL and leaving NULL nd->path.dentry. pick_link() either leaves nd->path unchanged (in which case we are back to the "had NULL nd->path.dentry on entry into link_path_walk()") or does nd_jump_root() (absolute symlinks) or has ->get_link() call nd_jump_link(). nd_jump_root() cannot survive leaving NULL in ->path.dentry - it hits either d = nd->path.dentry; nd->inode = d->d_inode; or nd->inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode; and either would've ooped right there. nd_jump_link() hits nd->inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode; on the way out, which also should be impossible to survive. So we appear to have hit link_path_walk() with NULL nd->path.dentry. And it's path_lookupat() from vfs_statx(), so we don't have LOOKUP_DOWN there. Which means either path_init() leaving NULL nd->path.dentry or lookup_last() returning NULL and leaving NULL nd->path.dentry... The latter is basically walk_component(), so we would've had left link_path_walk() without an error, with symlink picked and with NULL nd->path.dentry. Which means having the previous call of link_path_walk() also entered with NULL nd->path.dentry... OK, so it looks like path_init() returning a string and leaving that... And I don't see any way for that to happen... Right, so... Could you slap the following if (WARN_ON(!nd->path.dentry)) printk(KERN_ERR "pathname = %s\n", nd->name->name); 1) into beginning of link_path_walk(), right before while (*name=='/') name++; if (!*name) return 0; in there. 2) into pick_link(), right after all_done: // pure jump and see what your reproducer catches?