Re: mount -o loop with truncated dosdisk.img uses 100% cpu andcan't be killed

From: Jan Kara
Date: Fri Jul 13 2012 - 11:44:10 EST


On Fri 13-07-12 04:21:44, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> "Steven J. Magnani" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 16:28 +0200, Stevie Trujillo wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I was trying to create a bootdisk to update my BIOS, and accidentially
> >> made a 512byte image with only the FreeDOS header in it.
> >>
> >> ( Linux 3.4.4 )
> >> # mount -o loop dosdisk.img /tmp
> >> ^C^C^C
> >> It uses 100% CPU and doesn't listen to me when I do ^C, kill -9 etc. I
> >> think this means it's stuck in the kernel?
> >
> > Here is the stack trace I get for the mount process:
> >
> > [root@telezart smagnani]# cat /proc/1334/stack
> > [<ffffffff81077a5a>] __cond_resched+0x2a/0x40
> > [<ffffffff8110c4bb>] find_lock_page+0x3b/0x80
> > [<ffffffff8110cbaf>] find_or_create_page+0x3f/0xb0
> > [<ffffffff8119a692>] __getblk+0xf2/0x2a0
> > [<ffffffff8119a893>] __bread+0x13/0xb0
> > [<ffffffffa00fd1fe>] fat__get_entry+0x14e/0x220 [fat]
> > [<ffffffffa00fd596>] fat_get_short_entry+0x66/0xc0 [fat]
> > [<ffffffffa00ff765>] fat_subdirs+0x55/0x80 [fat]
> > [<ffffffffa0103d30>] fat_fill_super+0x810/0xa80 [fat]
> > [<ffffffffa00e821a>] vfat_fill_super+0x1a/0x20 [vfat]
> > [<ffffffff8116d61b>] mount_bdev+0x1cb/0x210
> > [<ffffffffa00e81f5>] vfat_mount+0x15/0x20 [vfat]
> > [<ffffffff8116e410>] mount_fs+0x20/0xd0
> > [<ffffffff81186e4f>] vfs_kern_mount+0x6f/0x100
> > [<ffffffff81187804>] do_kern_mount+0x54/0x110
> > [<ffffffff811891d6>] do_mount+0x306/0x8b0
> > [<ffffffff811898cd>] sys_mount+0x8d/0xe0
> > [<ffffffff81583629>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> > [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> >
> > I would think this is more likely a bug in the loopback driver than the
> > FAT filesystem...
>
> It looks like the bug of __getblk_slow(). If requested block was beyond
> end of device, __find_get_block() will find buffer_mapped()'s buffer,
> but block >= end_block is unmapped. So, it can be loop.
>
> The following patch fixes it? If it fix, there are some options to check
> it.
>
> a) Check it like this patch and warn.
> b) (a), but without warn.
> c) Check it in init_page_buffers() and return -EIO or such
>
> Well, anyway, Cc to Jens.
>
> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I think Jeff Moyer has sent a similar fix recently. It may even be
already queued in Jens' tree. Jeff?

Honza
> ---
>
> fs/buffer.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff -puN fs/buffer.c~debug fs/buffer.c
> --- tux3fs/fs/buffer.c~debug 2012-07-13 04:10:40.000000000 +0900
> +++ tux3fs-hirofumi/fs/buffer.c 2012-07-13 04:11:50.000000000 +0900
> @@ -1055,6 +1055,13 @@ __getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev,
> dump_stack();
> return NULL;
> }
> + if (block >= blkdev_max_block(I_BDEV(bdev->bd_inode))) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "getblk(): block %llu, end_block %llu\n",
> + (unsigned long long)block,
> + (unsigned long long)blkdev_max_block(I_BDEV(bdev->bd_inode)));
> + dump_stack();
> + return NULL;
> + }
>
> for (;;) {
> struct buffer_head * bh;
> _
>
> --
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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