Re: [NFSv4] 2.6.23-rc4 oops in nfs4_cb_recall...

From: Daniel J Blueman
Date: Mon Sep 10 2007 - 10:39:36 EST


On 09/09/2007, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When accessing a directory inode from a single other client, NFSv4
> > callbacks catastrophically failed [1] on the NFS server with
> > 2.6.23-rc4 (unpatched); clients are both 2.6.22 (Ubuntu Gutsy build).
> > Seems not easy to reproduce, since this kernel was running smoothly
> > for 7 days on the server.
> >
> > What information will help track this down, or is there a known
> > failure mechanism?
>
> I haven't seen that before.
>
> > I can map stack frames to source lines with objdump, if that helps.

> If it's still easy, it might help to figure out exactly where in
> xprt_reserve() it died, and why. If we've got some race that can lead
> to freeing the client while a callback is in progress, then perhaps this
> is on the first dereference of xprt?

I've raised the bug report into bugzilla, added other observations
from a second occurrence recently and disassembled xprt_reserve with
line numbers.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9003

Ping me for any more detail/info and thanks!

Daniel
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Daniel J Blueman
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