Hello, [ 1.971778] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 1.971960] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6 at mm/page_alloc.c:2497 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1b9/0x693() [ 1.972246] Modules linked in: sd_mod ahci [ 1.972604] CPU: 1 PID: 6 Comm: kworker/u8:0 Not tainted 3.14.0-rc8-next-20140327-dbg-dirty #202 [ 1.972890] Hardware name: Acer Aspire 5741G /Aspire 5741G , BIOS V1.20 02/08/2011 [ 1.973182] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn [ 1.973417] 0000000000000000 ffff8801534d5af0 ffffffff813ad822 0000000000000000 [ 1.973994] ffff8801534d5b28 ffffffff8103c03c ffffffff810ad4e5 00000000001000d0 [ 1.974529] ffffffff81656fc8 0000000000000000 ffffffff81656fc0 ffff8801534d5b38 [ 1.975125] Call Trace: [ 1.975306] [<ffffffff813ad822>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a [ 1.975488] [<ffffffff8103c03c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x75/0x8e [ 1.975670] [<ffffffff810ad4e5>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1b9/0x693 [ 1.975853] [<ffffffff8103c0f4>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x17 [ 1.976035] [<ffffffff810ad4e5>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1b9/0x693 [ 1.976220] [<ffffffff81074220>] ? console_unlock+0x2dd/0x2fa [ 1.976404] [<ffffffff812a08be>] ? scsi_execute_req_flags+0x9c/0xb3 [ 1.976587] [<ffffffff810ad9d1>] __get_free_pages+0x12/0x3f [ 1.976771] [<ffffffff810d5c66>] __kmalloc+0x37/0x112 [ 1.976951] [<ffffffff8129b5f4>] scsi_attach_vpd+0x41/0x1a8 [ 1.977133] [<ffffffff812a3d81>] scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x8ec/0xa21 [ 1.977317] [<ffffffff812a40f8>] __scsi_add_device+0xce/0x10a [ 1.977501] [<ffffffff812b109a>] ata_scsi_scan_host+0x60/0x142 [ 1.977683] [<ffffffff812ad6e9>] async_port_probe+0x45/0x4a [ 1.977873] [<ffffffff81057e18>] async_run_entry_fn+0x5a/0x110 [ 1.978061] [<ffffffff8104ee52>] process_one_work+0x1c9/0x2e9 [ 1.978243] [<ffffffff8104f3ec>] worker_thread+0x1d3/0x2bd [ 1.978424] [<ffffffff8104f219>] ? rescuer_thread+0x27d/0x27d [ 1.978606] [<ffffffff81053ab4>] kthread+0xd6/0xde [ 1.978786] [<ffffffff810539de>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x162/0x162 [ 1.978970] [<ffffffff813b2efc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [ 1.979151] [<ffffffff810539de>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x162/0x162 [ 1.979334] ---[ end trace ca7c5bd74b0dca21 ]--- scsi_attach_vpd() (at pg0 label) attempts to firstly allocate 255 and later 134217730 bytes. --- general question, scsi_attach_vpd() is sure that scsi_vpd_inquiry() returns `ret < 0' in case of an error and `ret > 0' otherwise: "Returns size of the vpd page on success or a negative error number." while this is not exactly true. scsi_vpd_inquiry() indeed can return -EINVAL, but usually it returns scsi_execute_req()->scsi_execute_req_flags()->scsi_execute() status, which has different error indication and can be, e.g. for failed blk_get_request() in scsi_execute() or failed sense kzalloc() in scsi_execute_req_flags(), `DRIVER_ERROR << 24'. -ss -- 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
