Hi All,
I am writing a very simple file system for understanding purpose.
After mounting the file system, I am able to create file and read
write to the file. But, as soon as close the file, it is panicking.
I did some analysis and found that
My kernel has CONFIG_EPOLL enabled
struct file
{
.............
.............
#ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL
/* Used by fs/eventpoll.c to link all the hooks to this file */
struct list_head f_ep_links;
spinlock_t f_ep_lock;
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL */
.............
.............
};
This is the stack trace of the oops
[ 4960.322635] EIP: [<c01f3ffe>] list_del+0xa/0x61 SS:ESP 0068:e9464f20
[ 4960.322511] [<c0179342>] eventpoll_release_file+0x25/0x69
[ 4960.322519] [<c0155b0a>] __fput+0xa3/0x15a
[ 4960.322526] [<c0155bd8>] fput+0x17/0x19
[ 4960.322532] [<c0153610>] filp_close+0x54/0x5c
[ 4960.322539] [<c015e6e9>] sys_dup2+0xd0/0xfc
[ 4960.322547] [<c0103854>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5d/0x99
eventpoll_release_file () functions result in the call to list_del()
void list_del(struct list_head *entry)
{
if (unlikely(entry->prev->next != entry)) { <==== THIS IS THE LINE
WHERE OOPS IN HAPPENING
printk(KERN_ERR "list_del corruption. prev->next should be %p, "
"but was %p\n", entry, entry->prev->next);
BUG();
}
if (unlikely(entry->next->prev != entry)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "list_del corruption. next->prev should be %p, "
"but was %p\n", entry, entry->next->prev);
BUG();
}
__list_del(entry->prev, entry->next);
entry->next = LIST_POISON1;
entry->prev = LIST_POISON2;
}
This is the panic string
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
address 00000000
So, I think file->f_ep_links is not initialized in my code.
Can anyone please let me know the reason
Why event polls are used? and
What function should I call for initializing the file-> f_ep_links list.?
Thanks and Regards,
Prasad.
ADDING OOPS IF REQUIRED FOR THE REFERENCE
Here is the oops msg.
[ 4960.322267] Inode Created : 17190 = test<1>BUG: unable to handle
kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
[ 4960.322328] printing eip:
[ 4960.322332] c01f3ffe
[ 4960.322335] *pde = 00000000
[ 4960.322341] Oops: 0000 [#2]
[ 4960.322344] SMP
[ 4960.322350] Modules linked in: fs cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_ondemandfreq_table ac evdev thermal processor fan
[ 4960.322370] CPU: 1
[ 4960.322372] EIP: 0060:[<c01f3ffe>] Not tainted VLI
[ 4960.322376] EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.20 #8)
[ 4960.322386
] EIP is at list_del+0xa/0x61
[ 4960.322391] eax: f8868080 ebx: f8868044 ecx: 00000000 edx:
e75ef5cc
[ 4960.322398] esi: f8868080 edi: 00000000 ebp: e9464f30 esp:
e9464f20
[ 4960.322403] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
[ 4960.322409] Process bash (pid: 6062, ti=e9464000 task=f751b4f0
task.ti=e9464000)
[ 4960.322415] Stack: e75ef5cc e9464f30 c0344186 f8868044 e9464f48
c0179342 e75ef5cc 00000008
[ 4960.322430] f599e03c e75ef5cc e9464f70 c0155b0a 00000000
00000000 e826b1cc dfff0988
[ 4960.322445] f599e03c e75ef5cc f7baaca8 00000000 e9464f78
c0155bd8 e9464f90 c0153610
[ 4960.322459] Call Trace:
[ 4960.322462] [<c01048a2>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
[ 4960.322472] [<c0104954>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9d/0xa5
[ 4960.322481] [<c0104af1>] show_registers+0x195/0x26b
[ 4960.322489] [<c0104ce0>] die+0x119/0x21a
[ 4960.322496] [<c034713d>] do_page_fault+0x443/0x514
[ 4960.322504] [<c034597c>] error_code+0x7c/0x84
[ 4960.322511] [<c0179342>] eventpoll_release_file+0x25/0x69
[ 4960.322519] [<c0155b0a>] __fput+0xa3/0x15a
[ 4960.322526] [<c0155bd8>] fput+0x17/0x19
[ 4960.322532] [<c0153610>] filp_close+0x54/0x5c
[ 4960.322539] [<c015e6e9>] sys_dup2+0xd0/0xfc
[ 4960.322547] [<c0103854>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5d/0x99
[ 4960.322555] =======================
[ 4960.322558] Code: 00 00 8d 4b 0c 8b 51 04 8d 46 0c e8 72 00 00 00
89 f8 e8 87 fe ff ff 83 c4 10 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 90 90 55 89 e5 53 83 ec
0c 8b 48 04 <8b> 11 39 c2 74 18 89 54 24 08 89 44 24 04 c7 04 24 92 37
3e c0
[ 4960.322635] EIP: [<c01f3ffe>] list_del+0xa/0x61 SS:ESP 0068:e9464f20
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