On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:36:40AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 11:48 +0100, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I've enabled rcu correctness for my todays 2.6.34-rc2 kernel.
> >
> > I'm getting this INFO: from my kvm guest (which uses host's nfs
> > exported directory.)
> > This
> >
> > ===================================================
> > [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > fs/nfs/delegation.c:348 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
> >
> > other info that might help us debug this:
> >
> >
> > rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
> > 2 locks held by rm/1820:
> > #0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13/1){+.+.+.}, at:
> > [<ffffffff81138e1b>] do_unlinkat+0x9b/0x1c0
> > #1: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81136a76>]
> > vfs_unlink+0x56/0xf0
> >
> > stack backtrace:
> > Pid: 1820, comm: rm Not tainted 2.6.34-rc2-00186-ge79a302 #60
> > Call Trace:
> > [<ffffffff810819fb>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xbb/0xc0
> > [<ffffffffa0228351>] nfs_inode_return_delegation+0x101/0x110 [nfs]
> > [<ffffffffa01fd58d>] nfs_unlink+0xad/0x2a0 [nfs]
> > [<ffffffff81136aba>] vfs_unlink+0x9a/0xf0
> > [<ffffffff81148365>] ? mnt_want_write+0x65/0xb0
> > [<ffffffff81138f03>] do_unlinkat+0x183/0x1c0
> > [<ffffffff8142b66d>] ? retint_swapgs+0xe/0x13
> > [<ffffffff81083985>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x155/0x1a0
> > [<ffffffff8142a232>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
> > [<ffffffff811390a2>] sys_unlinkat+0x22/0x40
> > [<ffffffff81031dc8>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x2c
> >
>
> It is a 100% bogus warning. There are tentative patches floating around
> to fix the above warning, but they haven't been merged yet.
>
> In the meantime, please ignore...
Did you want to carry these patches, or would you rather that I do so?
(And sorry for the slow response, was on holiday last week.)
Thanx, Paul
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