[PATCH][noop-iosched] don't reuse a freed request

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Sun Oct 30 2005 - 21:30:32 EST


Hi,

I'm getting the oops below when trying to use qemu with a kernel
built with just the noop iosched, I'm never had looked at this code before,
so I did a quick hack that seems enough for my case.

Ah, this is with a fairly recent git tree (today), haven't checked
if it is present in 2.6.14.

Best Regards,

- Arnaldo

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c5f20f60
printing eip:
c01b0ecd
*pde = 00017067
*pte = 05f20000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c01b0ecd>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00000046 (2.6.14acme)
EIP is at elv_rq_merge_ok+0x15/0x7b
eax: 00000014 ebx: c5f20f58 ecx: 000003f8 edx: 00000046
esi: c12a5a90 edi: c5f20f58 ebp: c11658d0 esp: c11658c4
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=c1165000 task=c1164af0)
Stack: c0251883 c5ecfe4c c5d688c0 c1165904 c01b0f48 c5f20f58 c12a5a90 00000000
c5874000 c018c5e1 c5f15f24 0000002b 00000000 c5ecfe4c c5d688c0 c12a5a90
c1165920 c01b128d c5f20f58 c12a5a90 000a568a 00000000 00000002 c1165960
Call Trace:
[<c0102a63>] show_stack+0x78/0x83
[<c0102b88>] show_registers+0x100/0x167
[<c0102d35>] die+0xcb/0x140
[<c0234308>] do_page_fault+0x393/0x53a
[<c0102777>] error_code+0x4f/0x54
[<c01b0f48>] elv_try_merge+0x15/0x84
[<c01b128d>] elv_merge+0x1d/0x4f
[<c01b41d9>] __make_request+0xb2/0x425
[<c01b46f9>] generic_make_request+0x125/0x137
[<c01b47ae>] submit_bio+0xa3/0xa9
[<c013d48a>] submit_bh+0xeb/0x10c
[<c013b953>] __bread_slow+0x4a/0x86
[<c013bba4>] __bread+0x25/0x2c
[<c016b736>] ext3_get_branch+0x6c/0xe9
[<c016bc20>] ext3_get_block_handle+0x99/0x28e
[<c016be74>] ext3_get_block+0x5f/0x66
[<c0157942>] do_mpage_readpage+0x110/0x3ab
[<c0157c62>] mpage_readpages+0x85/0x114
[<c016ca53>] ext3_readpages+0x16/0x18
[<c012b27a>] read_pages+0x22/0xf5
[<c012b442>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0xf5/0x113
[<c012b553>] blockable_page_cache_readahead+0x43/0x9a
[<c012b6ab>] page_cache_readahead+0x72/0x101
[<c0126204>] do_generic_mapping_read+0xfc/0x451
[<c012679b>] __generic_file_aio_read+0x15a/0x1a8
[<c012682b>] generic_file_aio_read+0x42/0x49
[<c0139712>] do_sync_read+0x9c/0xcd
[<c01397cd>] vfs_read+0x8a/0x12a
[<c014263e>] kernel_read+0x37/0x41
[<c0142fa4>] prepare_binprm+0xbc/0xce
[<c0143348>] do_execve+0xe9/0x1d9
[<c01013e9>] sys_execve+0x2a/0x75
[<c010254d>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: b9 21 08 00 59 eb 98 66 4a 75 e9 51 e8 55 c3 fd ff 59 eb e0 90 90 55 89 e5 56 8b 75 0c 53 8b 5d 08 68 83 18 25 c0 e8 bf db f5 ff <8b> 43 08 5a a8 d8 75 55 a8 20 74 51 68 b1 18 25 c0 e8 a9 db f5
<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
--- a/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
@@ -1787,6 +1787,9 @@ static inline void blk_free_request(requ
if (rq->flags & REQ_ELVPRIV)
elv_put_request(q, rq);
mempool_free(rq, q->rq.rq_pool);
+
+ if (rq == q->last_merge)
+ q->last_merge = NULL;
}

static inline struct request *