Re: patchwork.kernel.org down

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Wed Jan 05 2011 - 17:52:25 EST


> More excitement from https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20702
>
> Anyone want to take a stab at it? I know I'd be appreciative. I am
> running a debug kernel with everything I could find and enable I even
> remotely thought might prove helpful. Nothing has jumped out yet though.

A little late, but perhaps running with the patch below might help us
make a bit of progress. The idea is to dump the last /proc/net file
opened and closed, so we can at least have a clue as to where the crash
is coming from. This should add lines like

last procfs open: /proc/2443/net/arp
last procfs close: /proc/2443/net/arp

to the oops output, so maybe we can zero in on things after you get a
crash with this applied.

- R.

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
index 6e8752c..c67b8d6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@

#include <asm/stacktrace.h>

+void procfs_printk_last_file(void);

int panic_on_unrecovered_nmi;
int panic_on_io_nmi;
@@ -283,6 +284,7 @@ int __kprobes __die(const char *str, struct pt_regs *regs, long err)
#endif
printk("\n");
sysfs_printk_last_file();
+ procfs_printk_last_file();
if (notify_die(DIE_OOPS, str, regs, err,
current->thread.trap_no, SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP)
return 1;
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_net.c b/fs/proc/proc_net.c
index 9020ac1..1801cc1 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_net.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_net.c
@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@

#include "internal.h"

+/* used in crash dumps to help with debugging */
+static char last_procfs_open[PATH_MAX];
+static char last_procfs_close[PATH_MAX];
+void procfs_printk_last_file(void)
+{
+ printk(KERN_EMERG "last procfs open: %s\n", last_procfs_open);
+ printk(KERN_EMERG "last procfs close: %s\n", last_procfs_close);
+}

static struct net *get_proc_net(const struct inode *inode)
{
@@ -37,9 +45,14 @@ int seq_open_net(struct inode *ino, struct file *f,
{
struct net *net;
struct seq_net_private *p;
+ char *n;

BUG_ON(size < sizeof(*p));

+ n = d_path(&f->f_path, last_procfs_open, sizeof(last_procfs_open));
+ if (!IS_ERR(n))
+ memmove(last_procfs_open, n, strlen(n) + 1);
+
net = get_proc_net(ino);
if (net == NULL)
return -ENXIO;
@@ -83,6 +96,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(single_open_net);
int seq_release_net(struct inode *ino, struct file *f)
{
struct seq_file *seq;
+ char *n;
+
+ n = d_path(&f->f_path, last_procfs_close, sizeof(last_procfs_close));
+ if (!IS_ERR(n))
+ memmove(last_procfs_close, n, strlen(n) + 1);

seq = f->private_data;

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