Re: 2.6.21-git11: BUG in loop.ko

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Thu May 10 2007 - 03:32:36 EST


On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 05:20:59PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 May 2007 16:52:41 -0700
> > Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Seems to be getting a 0 refcount. I don't see anything in the recent
> >> changes which might cause this, but this is relatively new behaviour.
> >> It was working for me in the 2.6.21-pre time period, but I haven't tried
> >> this since 2.6.21 was released.
> >>
> >> The BUG is actually triggered by the __module_get(THIS_MODULE) in
> >> loop_set_fd.
> >>
> >> J
> >>
> >> loop: module loaded
> >> device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
> >> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >> kernel BUG at /home/jeremy/hg/xen/paravirt/linux/include/linux/module.h:396!
> >> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]
> >> PREEMPT SMP
> >> Modules linked in: dm_snapshot dm_mod loop
> >> CPU: 1
> >> EIP: 0061:[<d085a911>] Not tainted VLI
> >> EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.21-paravirt #1339)
> >> EIP is at lo_ioctl+0x65/0xa52 [loop]
> >> eax: 00000000 ebx: cfb92c98 ecx: d085e480 edx: 00000200
> >> esi: 00004c00 edi: cf8ad428 ebp: cf37fdc0 esp: cf37fbf8
> >> ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0069
> >> Process losetup (pid: 440, ti=cf37e000 task=cf30b4d0 task.ti=cf37e000)
> >> Stack: c1390080 c1390080 cf37fc10 00000008 cf8ad428 cfbb2258 00000000 cf37fc34
> >> c01458c5 cfb92c98 c1392a40 cf30ba70 cf30b4d0 cf30ba54 00000002 cf30ba70
> >> cf30b4d0 cf30ba54 00000002 00000003 c134c088 c134c088 cf37fc90 c01215b8
> >> Call Trace:
> >> [<c0109173>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
> >> [<c0109226>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9d/0xa5
> >> [<c0109425>] show_registers+0x1f7/0x336
> >> [<c010967d>] die+0x119/0x21b
> >> [<c0382c78>] do_trap+0x8a/0xa4
> >> [<c0109ad1>] do_invalid_op+0x88/0x92
> >> [<c0382a42>] error_code+0x72/0x78
> >> [<c0211c79>] blkdev_driver_ioctl+0x4c/0x5d
> >> [<c02123de>] blkdev_ioctl+0x754/0x7a2
> >> [<c0198840>] block_ioctl+0x1b/0x1f
> >> [<c0182e2e>] do_ioctl+0x22/0x68
> >> [<c01830a6>] vfs_ioctl+0x232/0x245
> >> [<c0183102>] sys_ioctl+0x49/0x63
> >> [<c0108080>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> >> =======================
> >> Code: ff 83 f8 06 0f 87 5a 09 00 00 ff 24 85 5c bc 85 d0 8b 9b cc 01 00 00 b8 80 e4 85 d0 89 9d 5c fe ff ff e8 37 0a 8f ef 85 c0 75 04 <0f> 0b eb fe b8 01 00 00 00 e8 79 9f 8c ef e8 ec 4b 9c ef c1 e0
> >> EIP: [<d085a911>] lo_ioctl+0x65/0xa52 [loop] SS:ESP 0069:cf37fbf8
> >>
> >>
> >
> > A few people have been playing with module refcounting lately. Did you
> > work out a reproduce-it recipe?
> >
>
>
> 100% reliable, but a bit obscure. I'm booting an FC6 livecd with a
> paravirt_ops kernel under Xen. The relevant part of the iso's initrd
> script is:
>
> + mknod /dev/loop118 b 7 118
> + mknod /dev/loop119 b 7 119
> + mknod /dev/loop120 b 7 120
> + mknod /dev/loop121 b 7 121
> + mkdir -p /dev/mapper
> + mknod /dev/mapper/control c 10 63
> + modprobe loop max_loop=128
> loop: the max_loop option is obsolete and will be removed in March 2008
> loop: module loaded
> + modprobe dm_snapshot
> device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
> + '[' 0 == 1 ']'
> + losetup /dev/loop120 /sysroot/squashfs.img
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at /home/jeremy/hg/xen/paravirt/linux/include/linux/module.h:396!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]
> PREEMPT SMP
> Modules linked in: dm_snapshot dm_mod loop
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0061:[<d085a911>] Not tainted VLI
> EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.21-paravirt #1339)
> [...]

This must be caused by dynamic loop devices creation patch

Steps to reproduce:

mknod foo b 7 1
losetup foo 1.img

where "7 1" is major/minor pair which doesn't created by udev et al
after module loading.

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