Re: patchwork.kernel.org down

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Jan 05 2011 - 18:50:53 EST


On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:52:17 -0800 Roland Dreier wrote:

> > 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);

Let's not mislead the reader of a crash dump, please. How about:

+ printk(KERN_EMERG "last /proc..net open: %s\n", last_procfs_open);
+ printk(KERN_EMERG "last /proc..net 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;
>
> --


---
~Randy
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