On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:48:32AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > There's a fair chance we won't ever need this work struct, so we might > as well delay initializing it until just before we're going to use it. > In a later patch, we'll need to intialize the work with a different > function for delegation callbacks. By delaying this, we avoid having > to do it twice. When I run ./nfs4.1/testserver.py f19:/exports/xfs/FUBAR --maketree --rundeps COMP1 I get crashes like: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 IP: [<ffffffff810890b1>] process_one_work+0x31/0x500 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: nfsd auth_rpcgss oid_registry nfs_acl lockd sunrpc CPU: 2 PID: 30 Comm: kworker/u8:1 Not tainted 3.16.0-rc2-00023-g30c1d16 #3051 Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 task: ffff88003d9cc810 ti: ffff88003d9d0000 task.ti: ffff88003d9d0000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810890b1>] [<ffffffff810890b1>] process_one_work+0x31/0x500 RSP: 0018:ffff88003d9d3d68 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000100 RBX: ffff88003d9caf80 RCX: dead000000200200 RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: ffff880031429b38 RDI: ffff88003d9caf80 RBP: ffff88003d9d3dd8 R08: ffff88003dcb7800 R09: 0000000001c40000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000006b5b0 R12: ffff88003dcb7800 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff880031429b38 R15: ffff88003d9caf80 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003fb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000138 CR3: 0000000027744000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Stack: 000000003d9d3d88 ffff88003dcb7818 ffff88003d9cafb0 ffff88003dcb7800 ffff88003dcb7800 ffff88003dcb7800 ffff88003dcb7800 ffff88003d9cafb0 ffff88003d9d3dd8 ffff88003dcb7800 ffff88003dcb7848 ffff88003d9cafb0 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81089b9b>] worker_thread+0x11b/0x4f0 [<ffffffff81089a80>] ? init_pwq+0x190/0x190 [<ffffffff81090ac4>] kthread+0xe4/0x100 [<ffffffff810909e0>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70 [<ffffffff81a4ca2c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [<ffffffff810909e0>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70 Code: 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 49 89 f6 41 55 45 31 ed 41 54 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 48 48 8b 06 4c 8b 67 48 48 89 c2 30 d2 a8 04 4c 0f 45 ea <49> 8b 45 08 48 c7 45 b8 00 00 00 00 48 c7 45 c0 00 00 00 00 8b RIP [<ffffffff810890b1>] process_one_work+0x31/0x500 RSP <ffff88003d9d3d68> CR2: 0000000000000008 and I'm suspicious of this: > @@ -763,6 +764,8 @@ static void do_probe_callback(struct nfs4_client *clp) > > cb->cb_ops = &nfsd4_cb_probe_ops; > > + INIT_WORK(&cb->cb_work, nfsd4_do_callback_rpc); > + > run_nfsd4_cb(cb); > } This is called all over the place, possibly multiple times on the same client, so we're calling INIT_WORK on something that may already be in use--I doubt that's safe. I'm backing out this patch for now. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html