Re: Linus GIT 3.17.0+ - BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request - IP: [<ffffffff81109e8d>] scan_block+0x59/0x100

[Miles Lane]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Miles,
>
> On 15 October 2014 04:43, Miles Lane <miles.lane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [   68.164917] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88021dc52000
>> [   68.164957] IP: [<ffffffff81109e8d>] scan_block+0x59/0x100
>> [   68.164987] PGD 2902067 PUD 2905067 PMD 21fdf2067 PTE 800000021dc52060
>
> My reading of the x86 _PAGE_BIT_* macros show that this is not present.
>
>> [   68.165020] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>
> And this could be caused by CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, though kmemleak
> should not try to access such memory.
>
>> [   68.165945] Call Trace:
>> [   68.165960]  [<ffffffff81528559>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x48/0x52
>> [   68.165988]  [<ffffffff8110a016>] ? scan_gray_list+0xe2/0x15f
>> [   68.166015]  [<ffffffff81109feb>] scan_gray_list+0xb7/0x15f
>> [   68.166040]  [<ffffffff8110a32f>] kmemleak_scan+0x29c/0x466
>> [   68.166066]  [<ffffffff8110a84d>] ? kmemleak_write+0x354/0x354
>> [   68.166092]  [<ffffffff8110a8cf>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x82/0xa4
>
> I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1. Are there any messages prior to the dump you posted, like kmemleak
> getting disabled?

There are no indications of problems with kmemleak before the BUG.
This is all I see:

[    5.111054] kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector initialized
[    5.111062] kmemleak: Automatic memory scanning thread started

> 2. Can you still reproduce the problem with !CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC?

When I disable this option, the BUG does not occur.

> Thanks,
>
> Catalin
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