Re: [bug, 2.6.26-rc4/rc5] sporadic bootup crashes inblk_lookup_devt()/prepare_namespace()

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:09:07AM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:03:12 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> -tip testing has started triggering a new type of sporadic bootup crash
> >> a few days ago. Find below a collection of 14 crashes i've managed to
> >> capture so far, which are all similar to this crash pattern:
> >>
> >>  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff81003b984fb8
> >>  IP: [<ffffffff803fafd4>] blk_lookup_devt+0x42/0xa0
> >>  PGD 8063 PUD 9063 PMD 3be2d163 PTE 800000003b984160
> >>  Oops: 0000 [1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> >>
> >>  Call Trace:
> >>   [<ffffffff80bac17b>] ? ip_auto_config+0x0/0xd94
> >>   [<ffffffff80209259>] name_to_dev_t+0x145/0xeec
> >>   [<ffffffff803ff2be>] ? __next_cpu_nr+0x22/0x2b
> >>   [<ffffffff80b7f372>] prepare_namespace+0x91/0x14c
> >>   [<ffffffff80b7eb70>] kernel_init+0x2fe/0x314
> >>   [<ffffffff80251f3d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xca/0xee
> >>   [<ffffffff80741bbb>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
> >>   [<ffffffff80251f3d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xca/0xee
> >>   [<ffffffff8020d3f8>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
> >>   [<ffffffff8020c90c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
> >>   [<ffffffff8025068d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0xf
> >>   [<ffffffff80b7e872>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x314
> >>   [<ffffffff8020d3ee>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x12
> >
> > Did you work out where it's dying?  Deref of `dev' I assume?
> 
>                         struct gendisk *disk = dev_to_disk(dev);

Mariusz already ran into this.

Neil already did some analysis of what could cause such problems [1],
but since Mariusz was no longer able to reproduce it with more recent 
kernels it became somehow forgotten.

Oh, and commit 30f2f0eb4bd2c43d10a8b0d872c6e5ad8f31c9a0 is currently 
sent for -stable review. I'll send an email that it shouldn't be merged 
not.

> Vegard

cu
Adrian

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/25/257

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