----- Original Message ----- > From: "Laurence Oberman" <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Jan Kara" <jack@xxxxxxx> > Cc: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Hugh Dickins" <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Linus Torvalds" > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Dave Chinner" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Chris Leech" <cleech@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Linux > Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Lee Duncan" <lduncan@xxxxxxxx>, open-iscsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, > "Linux SCSI List" <linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@xxxxxx>, > "Andrea Arcangeli" <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 10:26:09 AM > Subject: Re: [4.10, panic, regression] iscsi: null pointer deref at iscsi_tcp_segment_done+0x20d/0x2e0 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jan Kara" <jack@xxxxxxx> > > To: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: "Hugh Dickins" <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Linus Torvalds" > > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Dave Chinner" > > <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Chris Leech" <cleech@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Linux Kernel > > Mailing List" > > <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Lee Duncan" <lduncan@xxxxxxxx>, > > open-iscsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Linux SCSI List" > > <linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Christoph > > Hellwig" <hch@xxxxxx>, "Jan Kara" > > <jack@xxxxxxx>, "Andrea Arcangeli" <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 7:28:25 AM > > Subject: Re: [4.10, panic, regression] iscsi: null pointer deref at > > iscsi_tcp_segment_done+0x20d/0x2e0 > > > > On Mon 02-01-17 16:11:36, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 03:33:29AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 02:32:41AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:22:27PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 21 Dec 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Dave Chinner > > > > > > > <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I unmounted the fs, mkfs'd it again, ran the > > > > > > > > workload again and about a minute in this fired: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [628867.607417] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > > > > > > > > [628867.608603] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 16925 at > > > > > > > > mm/workingset.c:461 > > > > > > > > shadow_lru_isolate+0x171/0x220 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Well, part of the changes during the merge window were the shadow > > > > > > > entry tracking changes that came in through Andrew's tree. Adding > > > > > > > Johannes Weiner to the participants. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Now, this workload does not touch the page cache at all - it's > > > > > > > > entirely an XFS metadata workload, so it should not really be > > > > > > > > affecting the working set code. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Well, I suspect that anything that creates memory pressure will > > > > > > > end > > > > > > > up > > > > > > > triggering the working set code, so .. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That said, obviously memory corruption could be involved and > > > > > > > result > > > > > > > in > > > > > > > random issues too, but I wouldn't really expect that in this > > > > > > > code. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It would probably be really useful to get more data points - is > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > problem reliably in this area, or is it going to be random and > > > > > > > all > > > > > > > over the place. > > > > > > > > > > > > Data point: kswapd got WARNING on mm/workingset.c:457 in > > > > > > shadow_lru_isolate, > > > > > > soon followed by NULL pointer deref in list_lru_isolate, one time > > > > > > when > > > > > > I tried out Sunday's git tree. Not seen since, I haven't had time > > > > > > to > > > > > > investigate, just set it aside as something to worry about if it > > > > > > happens > > > > > > again. But it looks like shadow_lru_isolate() has issues beyond > > > > > > Dave's > > > > > > case (I've no XFS and no iscsi), suspect unrelated to his other > > > > > > problems. > > > > > > > > > > This seems consistent with what Dave observed: we encounter regular > > > > > pages in radix tree nodes on the shadow LRU that should only contain > > > > > nodes full of exceptional shadow entries. It could be an issue in the > > > > > new slot replacement code and the node tracking callback. > > > > > > > > Both encounters seem to indicate use-after-free. Dave's node didn't > > > > warn about an unexpected node->count / node->exceptional state, but > > > > had entries that were inconsistent with that. Hugh got the counter > > > > warning but crashed on a list_head that's not NULLed in a live node. > > > > > > > > workingset_update_node() should be called on page cache radix tree > > > > leaf nodes that go empty. I must be missing an update_node callback > > > > where a leaf node gets freed somewhere. > > > > > > Sorry for dropping silent on this. I'm traveling over the holidays > > > with sporadic access to my emails and no access to real equipment. > > > > > > The times I managed to sneak away to look at the code didn't turn up > > > anything useful yet. > > > > > > Andrea encountered the warning as well and I gave him a debugging > > > patch (attached below), but he hasn't been able to reproduce this > > > condition. I've personally never seen the warning trigger, even though > > > the patches have been running on my main development machine for quite > > > a while now. Albeit against an older base; I've updated to Linus's > > > master branch now in case it's an interaction with other new code. > > > > > > If anybody manages to reproduce this, that would be helpful. Any extra > > > eyes on this would be much appreciated too until I'm back at my desk. > > > > I was looking into this but I didn't find a way how we could possibly leave > > radix tree node on LRU. So your debug patch looks like a good way forward. > > > > Honza > > -- > > Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> > > SUSE Labs, CR > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > Running on 4.10.0-rc2+ and days of ISCSI served XFS load have not reproduced > this yet for me with an 4-core (hyper 8) system. > Using ISCSI over Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection > I217-LM > > I will now try with a full offload ISCSI HBA and see if if have any luck. > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > I will leave this running now against a full offload connection. If it triggers will add the debug and reproduce it again and share with the list here. Kernel 4.10.0-rc2+ on an x86_64 #!/bin/bash while true do mkfs -t xfs -f /dev/sdav mount /dev/sdav /mnt cp -Rp /usr /mnt umount /mnt sleep 10 done -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
