Hi, On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:25:44PM +0200, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Rainer Weikusat<rweikusat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Rainer Weikusat<rweikusat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >>>>> so this request is completed as a whole and the rq > >>>>> freed." > >>>> > >>>> Technically, this is not quite correct (assuming I haven't overlooked > >>>> something), because ide_cd_queue_pc still has a reference to the rq. > >>> > >>> That doesn't matter because the OOPS happens after the command has been > >>> issued and _before_ ide_cd_queue_pc() gets to access the rq ptr > >>> again. > >> > >> Yes. Because the pointer I already mentioned has been reset. > > And this happens here (!!!, code from 2.6.30 vanilla): > > int ide_complete_rq(ide_drive_t *drive, int error, unsigned int nr_bytes) > { > ide_hwif_t *hwif = drive->hwif; > struct request *rq = hwif->rq; > int rc; > > /* > * if failfast is set on a request, override number of sectors > * and complete the whole request right now > */ > if (blk_noretry_request(rq) && error <= 0) > nr_bytes = rq->hard_nr_sectors << 9; > > rc = ide_end_rq(drive, rq, error, nr_bytes); > if (rc == 0) > hwif->rq = NULL; /* !!! */ > > return rc; > } > [explanation below] > > My first attempt at getting this to work again actually looked like > this (as addition to cdrom_newpc_intr) > > if (uptodate == 0) { > ide_cd_error_cmd(drive, cmd); > rq = drive->hwif->rq; > } > > if (rq) { > /* code up to the 2nd complete call */ > } > > if (sense && rc == 2) > ide_error(drive, "request sense failure", stat); > > [...] > > That was before I had any idea why complete was being called twice and > that what this is supposed to do won't be done for bio-less requests, > anyway, and it worked fine. > > > and now here we do the second direct ide_complete_rq and here the rq is freed: > > > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at > > 0000000000000048 > > I have just restored the original file to generate another crash > dump. [the relevant part of] What I get is EIP == c0251311, edx == 0. > This corresponds with the following machine code: > > c02512fc <ide_complete_rq>: > c02512fc: 55 push %ebp > c02512fd: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp > c02512ff: 56 push %esi > c0251300: 53 push %ebx > c0251301: 83 ec 04 sub $0x4,%esp > c0251304: 89 c3 mov %eax,%ebx > c0251306: 89 d0 mov %edx,%eax > > /* ide_hwif_t *hwif = drive->hwif; */ > c0251308: 8b 73 28 mov 0x28(%ebx),%esi > > /* struct request *rq = hwif->rq; */ > c025130b: 8b 96 c8 01 00 00 mov 0x1c8(%esi),%edx > > /* if (blk_noretry_request(rq) .... */ > c0251311: f6 42 24 0e testb $0xe,0x24(%edx) /* !!! */ > c0251315: 74 04 je c025131b <ide_complete_rq+0x1f> > > blk_notretry_request is > > #define blk_noretry_request(rq) (blk_failfast_dev(rq) || \ > blk_failfast_transport(rq) || \ > blk_failfast_driver(rq)) > > and > > #define blk_failfast_dev(rq) ((rq)->cmd_flags & REQ_FAILFAST_DEV) > #define blk_failfast_transport(rq) ((rq)->cmd_flags & REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT) > #define blk_failfast_driver(rq) ((rq)->cmd_flags & REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER) > > and > > #define REQ_FAILFAST_DEV (1 << __REQ_FAILFAST_DEV) > #define REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT (1 << __REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT) > #define REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER (1 << __REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER) > > and > > enum rq_flag_bits { > __REQ_RW, /* not set, read. set, write */ > __REQ_FAILFAST_DEV, /* no driver retries of device errors */ > __REQ_FAILFAST_TRANSPORT, /* no driver retries of transport errors */ > __REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER, /* no driver retries of driver errors */ > __REQ_DISCARD, /* request to discard sectors */ > > [...] > > This means the values of the relevant __REQ_-constants are 1, 2, and > 3 and (1 << 1) | (1 << 2) | (1 << 3) == 2 + 4 + 8 == 14 (== 0xe), > hence testb $0xe, 0x24(%edx) (optimized by compiler). edx is 0. > 0x24(%edx) is the field at offset 36 in a struct request, which is > cmd_flags (on my computer). > > blk_end_io always returns zero for bio-less requests. More precisely, > it calls end_that_request_data, which is > > static int end_that_request_data(struct request *rq, int error, > unsigned int nr_bytes, unsigned int bidi_bytes) > { > if (rq->bio) { > if (__end_that_request_first(rq, error, nr_bytes)) > return 1; > > /* Bidi request must be completed as a whole */ > if (blk_bidi_rq(rq) && > __end_that_request_first(rq->next_rq, error, bidi_bytes)) > return 1; > } > > return 0; > } > > ie it returns 0 for a request w/o a bio, and looks itself like this: > > static int blk_end_io(struct request *rq, int error, unsigned int nr_bytes, > unsigned int bidi_bytes, > int (drv_callback)(struct request *)) > { > struct request_queue *q = rq->q; > unsigned long flags = 0UL; > > if (end_that_request_data(rq, error, nr_bytes, bidi_bytes)) > return 1; > > /* Special feature for tricky drivers */ > if (drv_callback && drv_callback(rq)) > return 1; > > add_disk_randomness(rq->rq_disk); > > spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags); > end_that_request_last(rq, error); > spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags); > > return 0; > } > > drv_callback is NULL and the 'final return value' is ultimatively > returned from the ide_end_rq-call mentioned at the beginning of this > overly long e-mail. > > An easy way to verify that would be a > > BUG_ON(!rq) > > inserted before the blkdev_noretry_request in ide_complete_rq (which I > also did -- I have been doing this for long enough to never trust my > own assumptions blindly ...). > > He who doesn't understand assembly will have a more difficult life > because of that :-). Well, this is a very good code analysis, I'd say, one for the books :) > While this is interesting, my boss [righfully] hates it and I will now > have to do at least an hour of additional overtime. Sorry about that, same here :) Here's another trace I did: [ 266.037646] ide-cd: ide_cd_queue_pc: cmd[0]: 0x51, write: 0x0, timeout: 7000, cmd_flags: 0x8000 [ 266.037662] ide-cd: ide_cd_do_request: cmd: 0x51, block: 4294967295, marker: 114 [ 266.037667] ide_cd_do_request: dev hdc: type=a, flags=128a440 [ 266.037670] sector 4294967295, nr/cnr 0/0 [ 266.037675] bio dde1e840, biotail dde1e840, buffer (null), len 2 [ 266.037678] ide-cd: cdrom_do_block_pc: rq->cmd[0]: 0x51, rq->cmd_type: 0xa [ 266.066559] ide-cd: cdrom_newpc_intr: cmd: 0x51, write: 0x0 [ 266.066567] ide-cd: cdrom_newpc_intr: DRQ: stat: 0x58, thislen: 2 [ 266.066570] ide-cd: ide_cd_check_ireason: ireason: 0x2, rw: 0x0 [ 266.066572] ide-cd: cdrom_newpc_intr: data transfer, rq->cmd_type: 0xa, ireason: 0x2 [ 266.149000] ide-cd: cdrom_newpc_intr: cmd: 0x51, write: 0x0 [ 266.149010] ide-cd: cdrom_newpc_intr: DRQ: stat: 0x50, thislen: 0 [ 266.149014] ide-cd: ide_cd_request_sense_fixup: rq->cmd[0]: 0x51 [ 266.149017] ide_complete_rq: completing rq, marker: 114 this is the end of the IRQ handler [ 266.149023] __blk_put_request: marker: 114, ref_count: 2 [ 266.149033] ide_cd_queue_pc: putting rq, marker: 114 and here ide_cd_queue_pc comes _after_ that and frees the rq due to refcount == 1. [ 266.149039] __blk_put_request: marker: 114, ref_count: 1 [ 266.149045] blk_free_request: marker: 114, ref_count: 0 Now in the fragmented packet command case - that what you call 32/30 - you'll have the first ide_complete_rq() call from ide_cd_error_cmd() and the first decrement of the refcount. Had the rq had a bio, it'd never be come to do a __blk_put_request and decrement the refcount. But even if it did decrement it, as it does in the real case, that wouldn't be a problem since the rq is still alive (refcount is now 1) and it will be only freed in the second ide_complete_rq() at the end of the IRQ handler. But, it seems that ide_cd_queue_pc() goes after that first ide_complete_rq() and decrements the refcount, as you suggest, right? What bothers me here is that we're in IRQ context and running with interrupts disabled so _actually_ the blk_put_request() part of ide_cd_queue_pc() should be getting to run only _after_ the IRQ handler is done and we should be getting the NULL ptr deref in ide_cd_queue_pc(), but we don't. I guess I'm missing something here. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html