Alexander Kolesen <kolesen.a@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
[Rafael, a new regression]
> Hello.
> I've built a kernel from
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> (Date: Fri Nov 19 19:46:45 2010 -0800)
> and got a kernel oops when tried to access to unplugged,
> but mounted external usb storage formatted with JFS.
Al seems to be the last person who touched it, maybe it's
related to his changes, like this one.
commit 152a08366671080f27b32e0c411ad620c5f88b57
Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Jul 25 00:46:55 2010 +0400
new helper: mount_bdev()
... and switch of the obvious get_sb_bdev() users to ->mount()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> mkfs.jfs /dev/sdb1 (unpluggable USB hard drive)
> mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/drive
> cd /mnt/drive
> touch test
> sync
> ..unplug a drive
> ls
>
>
> Result:
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> 0000000000000020
> IP: __mark_inode_dirty
>
> Then I got a kernel coredump. Here is a stack trace:
>
> (gdb) bt
> #0 __mark_inode_dirty (inode=0xffff880078fc1490, flags=<value optimized out>) at fs/fs-writeback.c:990
> #1 0xffffffff810e4990 in mark_inode_dirty_sync (mnt=0xffff88007862fd00, dentry=<value optimized out>) at include/linux/fs.h:1687
> #2 touch_atime (mnt=0xffff88007862fd00, dentry=<value optimized out>) at fs/inode.c:1505
> #3 0xffffffff810dfeb4 in file_accessed (file=0xffff88006afed600, filler=0xffffffff810dfcf8 <filldir>, buf=0xffff88007762bf38) at include/linux/fs.h:1763
> #4 vfs_readdir (file=0xffff88006afed600, filler=0xffffffff810dfcf8 <filldir>, buf=0xffff88007762bf38) at fs/readdir.c:41
> #5 0xffffffff810e001a in sys_getdents (fd=<value optimized out>, dirent=0x1f61468, count=32768) at fs/readdir.c:214
> #6 0xffffffff810279ab in ?? () at arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:479
> #7 0x00007f8b23d1a4c5 in ?? ()
> #8 0x00000000000002bb in ?? ()
> #9 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
>
> (gdb) p bdi
> $1 = (struct backing_dev_info *) 0x0
>
> (gdb) p inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info
> $15 = (struct backing_dev_info *) 0xffff880078878d48
>
> (gdb) p inode->i_sb->s_bdi
> $16 = (struct backing_dev_info *) 0x0
>
>
> I can't do git bisect because on n'th step my system became unbootable.
> But 2.6.35 doesn't fall.
>
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