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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: linux-aio@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, bcrl@kvack.org
Subject: Kernel warning triggered with trinity on 3.12-rc4
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 15:52:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131008145217.GB21189@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)

Hi guys,

I've been running trinity on my ARMv7 Cortex-A15 system and managed to
trigger the following kernel warning:

8<---

[15333.257972] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[15333.259328] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 18717 at fs/aio.c:474 free_ioctx+0x1d0/0x1d4()
[15333.259894] Modules linked in:
[15333.260643] CPU: 1 PID: 18717 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc4 #3
[15333.261580] Workqueue: events free_ioctx
[15333.261978] [<c00213f8>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf4) from [<c001e034>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[15333.263231] [<c001e034>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from [<c03c350c>] (dump_stack+0x98/0xd4)
[15333.264106] [<c03c350c>] (dump_stack+0x98/0xd4) from [<c002c5ac>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x6c/0x88)
[15333.265132] [<c002c5ac>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x6c/0x88) from [<c002c664>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x24)
[15333.266053] [<c002c664>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x24) from [<c01269a0>] (free_ioctx+0x1d0/0x1d4)
[15333.267097] [<c01269a0>] (free_ioctx+0x1d0/0x1d4) from [<c0041c30>] (process_one_work+0xf4/0x35c)
[15333.267822] [<c0041c30>] (process_one_work+0xf4/0x35c) from [<c004288c>] (worker_thread+0x138/0x3d4)
[15333.268766] [<c004288c>] (worker_thread+0x138/0x3d4) from [<c0048058>] (kthread+0xb4/0xb8)
[15333.269746] [<c0048058>] (kthread+0xb4/0xb8) from [<c001ae78>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
[15333.270455] ---[ end trace d2466d8d496fd5c9 ]---

--->8

So this looks like either somebody else is messing with ctx->reqs_available
on the ctx freeing path, or we're inadvertently incrementing the
reqs_available count beyond the queue size. I'm really not familiar with
this code, but the conditional assignment to avail looks pretty scary given
that I don't think we hold the ctx->completion_lock and potentially read the
tail pointer more than once.

Any ideas? I've not been able to reproduce the problem again with further
fuzzing (yet).

Cheers,

Will

             reply	other threads:[~2013-10-08 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-08 14:52 Will Deacon [this message]
2013-10-09 13:37 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-10-11 11:57   ` Will Deacon

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