From: Xiubo Li <lixiubo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> For all the entries allocated from the ring cmd area, the memory is something like the stack memory, which will always reserve the old data, so the entry->req.iov_bidi_cnt maybe none zero. On some environments, the crash could be reporduce very easy and some not. The following is the crash core trace: [ 240.143969] CPU: 0 PID: 1285 Comm: iscsi_trx Not tainted 4.12.0-rc1+ #3 [ 240.150607] Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H87-PRO, BIOS 2104 10/28/2014 [ 240.157331] task: ffff8807de4f5800 task.stack: ffffc900047dc000 [ 240.163270] RIP: 0010:memcpy_erms+0x6/0x10 [ 240.167377] RSP: 0018:ffffc900047dfc68 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 240.172621] RAX: ffffc9065db85540 RBX: ffff8807f7980000 RCX: 0000000000000010 [ 240.179771] RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: ffff8807de574fe0 RDI: ffffc9065db85540 [ 240.186930] RBP: ffffc900047dfd30 R08: ffff8807de41b000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 240.194088] R10: 0000000000000040 R11: ffff8807e9b726f0 R12: 00000006565726b0 [ 240.201246] R13: ffffc90007612ea0 R14: 000000065657d540 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 240.208397] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88081fa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 240.216510] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 240.222280] CR2: ffffc9065db85540 CR3: 0000000001c0f000 CR4: 00000000001406f0 [ 240.229430] Call Trace: [ 240.231887] ? tcmu_queue_cmd+0x83c/0xa80 [ 240.235916] ? target_check_reservation+0xcd/0x6f0 [ 240.240725] __target_execute_cmd+0x27/0xa0 [ 240.244918] target_execute_cmd+0x232/0x2c0 [ 240.249124] ? __local_bh_enable_ip+0x64/0xa0 [ 240.253499] iscsit_execute_cmd+0x20d/0x270 [ 240.257693] iscsit_sequence_cmd+0x110/0x190 [ 240.261985] iscsit_get_rx_pdu+0x360/0xc80 [ 240.267565] ? iscsi_target_rx_thread+0x54/0xd0 [ 240.273571] iscsi_target_rx_thread+0x9a/0xd0 [ 240.279413] kthread+0x113/0x150 [ 240.284120] ? iscsi_target_tx_thread+0x1e0/0x1e0 [ 240.290297] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x40/0x40 [ 240.296297] ret_from_fork+0x2e/0x40 [ 240.301332] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 eb 1e 0f 1f 00 48 89 f8 48 89 d1 48 c1 e9 03 83 e2 07 f3 48 a5 89 d1 f3 a4 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 d1 <f3> a4 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 89 f8 48 83 fa 20 72 7e 40 38 [ 240.321751] RIP: memcpy_erms+0x6/0x10 RSP: ffffc900047dfc68 [ 240.328838] CR2: ffffc9065db85540 [ 240.333667] ---[ end trace b7e5354cfb54d08b ]--- To fix this, just memset all the entry memory before using it, and also to be more readable we adjust the bidi code. Fixed: fe25cc34795(tcmu: Recalculate the tcmu_cmd size to save cmd area memories) Reported-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <lixiubo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/target_core_user.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_user.c b/drivers/target/target_core_user.c index 2f1fa92..3b25ef3 100644 --- a/drivers/target/target_core_user.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_user.c
Nice! This has fixed our long standing issue with not being able to boot with the global data area support on power. Tested-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -Bryant
