Re: a bug(BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference) of ib or mlx happened in 5.4.21 but not in 5.4.20

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 08:57:29AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Thanks for your bug report.
>
>
> > On Feb 19, 2020, at 10:22 PM, Wang Yugui <wangyugui@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, chuck.lever
> >
> > a bug(BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference) of ib or mlx happened in 5.4.21 but not in 5.4.20.
> >
> > maybe some releationship to xprtrdma-fix-dma-scatter-gather-list-mapping-imbalance.patch
>
> I don't see an obvious connection to fix-dma-scatter-gather-list-mapping-imbalance.
> The backtrace below is through IPoIB code paths. Those have nothing to do with
> NFS/RDMA, which is the only ULP code that is changed by my commit.
>
>
> > maybe the info is useful.
>
> I'm copying linux-rdma for a bigger set of eyeballs.
>
> My knee-jerk recommendation is that if you have a reliable reproducer, try "git bisect"
> between .20 and .21 to nail down a specific commit where the BUG starts to occur.

No need to bisect, it is me who broke.
The fix is already accepted, but not yet merged.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11387567/

Thanks



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