Hello, Hit this WARNING once while fuzzing the kernel with trinity in a qemu virtual machine as the root user. Does this make any sense? I have occasionally seen some ATA related troubles while fuzzing in a VM, but this warning is new to me. [ 490.717030] WARNING: at /home/ttrantal/git/linux-2.6/drivers/ata/libata-core.c:5049 ata_qc_issue+0x1c7/0x3a0() [ 490.717030] Hardware name: Bochs [ 490.717030] Pid: 2548, comm: trinity-child6 Not tainted 3.8.0+ #87 [ 490.717030] Call Trace: [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff81097b86>] warn_slowpath_common+0x86/0xb0 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff81097c75>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff8150efd7>] ata_qc_issue+0x1c7/0x3a0 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff81516550>] ? ata_scsi_set_sense.constprop.13+0x30/0x30 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff815155c0>] ata_scsi_translate+0x120/0x190 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff81518f4e>] ? ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x2e/0x2d0 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff81519173>] ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x253/0x2d0 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff814e3e91>] scsi_dispatch_cmd+0x161/0x230 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff814e9fd4>] scsi_request_fn+0x544/0x580 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff813473a6>] ? cfq_dispatch_requests+0x56/0xb30 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff810f173a>] ? __lock_is_held+0x5a/0x80 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff81332112>] __blk_run_queue+0x32/0x40 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff8132d0ea>] __elv_add_request+0x10a/0x280 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff813391f6>] blk_execute_rq_nowait+0xb6/0xf0 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff810c0151>] ? __init_waitqueue_head+0x41/0x60 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff813392d8>] blk_execute_rq+0xa8/0x110 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff810f557e>] ? lock_release_non_nested+0xde/0x310 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff812fc1a4>] ? selinux_capable+0x34/0x50 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff812f8aa3>] ? security_capable+0x13/0x20 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff810a55d3>] ? ns_capable+0x53/0x80 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff8133f6c1>] sg_scsi_ioctl+0x2b1/0x3a0 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff8133fbc2>] scsi_cmd_ioctl+0x412/0x4a0 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff810f41d7>] ? __lock_acquire+0x957/0x1c20 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff81084adf>] ? kvm_clock_read+0x1f/0x30 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff81342d36>] bsg_ioctl+0x146/0x270 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff810f5b18>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x28/0xd0 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff810f5bcd>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff810d552a>] ? local_clock+0x4a/0x70 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff810f1e98>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x28/0x170 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff812fb640>] ? avc_has_perm_flags+0x1d0/0x2a0 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff812fb498>] ? avc_has_perm_flags+0x28/0x2a0 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff810f5b18>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x28/0xd0 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff810f5bcd>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff811b5ff2>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x532/0x580 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff812fc7d3>] ? file_has_perm+0x83/0xa0 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff811b609d>] sys_ioctl+0x5d/0xa0 [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff813571de>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [ 490.717030] [<ffffffff81ca07e9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 490.717030] ---[ end trace fce35d2b40bd0565 ]--- [ 490.810874] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [ 490.812538] ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA [ 490.813715] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:2c:00:01:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 [ 490.813715] res 50/01:00:b0:16:04/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x40 (internal error) [ 490.817269] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } [watchdog] 333615 iterations. [F:326712 S:6891] [watchdog] kernel became tainted! Last seed was 71022097 [ 491.266158] ata1.00: configured for MWDMA2 [ 491.267358] ata1: EH complete child 2548 exitting child 2492 exitting child 2500 exitting [2351] Bailing main loop. Exit reason: kernel became tainted [2350] Watchdog exiting Ran 333617 syscalls. Successes: 6892 Failures: 326714 Tommi -- 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