Re: [bug] block subsystem related crash with latest -git

[Jens Axboe]

On Wed, Oct 17 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > > Jens, just got this crash on a testbox:
> > 
> > The code in question is:
> > 
> >      mov    %edx,0xc(%esp)
> >      mov    (%ebx),%edi
> >      mov    %edi,%edx
> >      sub    %eax,%edx
> >      mov    %edx,%eax
> >      sar    $0x5,%eax
> >      shl    $0xc,%eax
> >      add    0x8(%ebx),%eax
> >      cmp    %eax,0xc(%esp)
> >      je     +126
> >      mov    0x10(%esi),%eax	<----- Oops
> >      lea    0x10(%esi),%edx
> >      test   $0x1,%al
> >      jne    +76
> >      mov    %edi,(%esi)
> >      mov    %ebp,0xc(%esi)
> >      mov    0x8(%ebx),%eax
> >      mov    %eax,0x4(%esi)
> > 
> > 
> > and it looks like %esi is overflowing from one page to the next one, ie:
> > 
> > 	BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 7ca76000
> > 	ESI: 7ca75ff0
> > 
> > and you caught this thanks to page-alloc debugging again.
> > 
> > I think I can match that up with the source code: that's "sg_next()". It's 
> > doing:
> > 
> >         sg++;
> > 
> >         if (unlikely(sg_is_chain(sg)))
> >                 sg = sg_chain_ptr(sg);
> > 
> >         return sg;
> > 
> > and the oopsing instruction is that load of "sg->page" in the assembly 
> > code:
> > 
> > 	mov    0x10(%esi),%eax		# %eax = sg->page
> > 	lea    0x10(%esi),%edx		# %edx = sg+1;
> > 	test   $0x1,%al			# if (unlikely(sg_is_chain()))
> > 	jne    +76
> > 
> > Jens?
> 
> Yep, that's what I came up with as well - I asked Ingo for a dump in
> private, but ended up just using ksymoops to decode the line.
> 
> The way blk_rq_map_sg() operates is that it ends up doing a
> 
>         next_sg = sg_next(sg);
> 
> even though sg may be the last entry. Perhaps this is crapping out,
> although if sg is a valid address, then sg + 1 should be as well.
> next_sg may end up being crap, in fact it will, but we'll never use that
> unless there are more entries to fill. And if there is, then both sg and
> next_sg were valid.
> 
> So nothing in for-linus should fix it, I'll try and come up with an
> alternate way to assign next_sg so it's always valid.

OK, the below should actually be safe, I don't know why I talked myself
into the next_sg stuff in the beginning. It's always safe to zero sg,
since it's a valid entry - nothing to save in ->page. Ingo, does this
work for you?

diff --git a/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
index 9e3f3cc..3935469 100644
--- a/block/ll_rw_blk.c
+++ b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
@@ -1322,8 +1322,8 @@ int blk_rq_map_sg(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq,
 		  struct scatterlist *sglist)
 {
 	struct bio_vec *bvec, *bvprv;
-	struct scatterlist *next_sg, *sg;
 	struct req_iterator iter;
+	struct scatterlist *sg;
 	int nsegs, cluster;
 
 	nsegs = 0;
@@ -1333,7 +1333,7 @@ int blk_rq_map_sg(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq,
 	 * for each bio in rq
 	 */
 	bvprv = NULL;
-	sg = next_sg = &sglist[0];
+	sg = NULL;
 	rq_for_each_segment(bvec, rq, iter) {
 		int nbytes = bvec->bv_len;
 
@@ -1349,8 +1349,10 @@ int blk_rq_map_sg(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq,
 			sg->length += nbytes;
 		} else {
 new_segment:
-			sg = next_sg;
-			next_sg = sg_next(sg);
+			if (!sg)
+				sg = sglist;
+			else
+				sg = sg_next(sg);
 
 			memset(sg, 0, sizeof(*sg));
 			sg->page = bvec->bv_page;

-- 
Jens Axboe

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