Re: [BISECTED] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 142 at block/genhd.c:626 add_disk+0x480/0x4e0()

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 12/10/2015 05:00 AM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We received a report
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288687) that
> live images with the rawhide kernel were failing to boot on USB sticks.
> Similar issues were reported when just inserting a USB stick into a
> boot from a
> CD instead of USB ("I see /dev/sdb, but no /dev/sdb1 etc." per the
> report)
> I reduced the test scenario to:
>
> 1) insert scsi_dh_alua module
> 2) insert Live USB drive
>
> which gives
>
> [ 125.107185] sd 6:0:0:0: alua: supports implicit and explicit TPGS
> [ 125.107778] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 15634432 512-byte logical blocks:
> (8.00 GB/7.46 GiB)
> [ 125.107973] sd 6:0:0:0: alua: No target port descriptors found
> [ 125.107975] sd 6:0:0:0: alua: Attach failed (-22)
> [ 125.107978] sd 6:0:0:0: failed to add device handler: -22
> [ 125.108462] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> [ 125.108465] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
> [ 125.108468] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
> [ 125.108469] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [ 125.109122] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 125.109127] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 142 at block/genhd.c:626
> add_disk+0x480/0x4e0()
> [ 125.109128] Modules linked in: uas usb_storage scsi_dh_alua fuse
> xt_CHECKSUM
> ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 ccm tun nf_conntrack_netbios_ns
> nf_conntrack_broadcast ip6t_rpfilter ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6
> xt_conntrack
> ebtable_filter ebtable_nat ebtable_broute bridge stp llc ebtables
> ip6table_raw
> ip6table_security ip6table_nat nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6
> nf_nat_ipv6
> ip6table_mangle ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_raw iptable_security
> iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat
> nf_conntrack
> iptable_mangle bnep snd_hda_codec_hdmi arc4 iwlmvm mac80211 i915
> intel_rapl
> iosf_mbi x86_pkg_temp_thermal coretemp iwlwifi kvm_intel kvm
> snd_hda_codec_realtek uvcvideo snd_hda_codec_generic btusb
> snd_hda_intel btrtl
> videobuf2_vmalloc cfg80211 snd_hda_codec btbcm iTCO_wdt videobuf2_v4l2
> [ 125.109164] btintel iTCO_vendor_support videobuf2_core irqbypass
> videobuf2_memops bluetooth v4l2_common snd_hda_core ghash_clmulni_intel
> videodev snd_hwdep snd_seq media pcspkr joydev snd_seq_device
> rtsx_pci_ms
> snd_pcm memstick thinkpad_acpi snd_timer mei_me snd i2c_algo_bit mei
> drm_kms_helper ie31200_edac rfkill tpm_tis edac_core shpchp
> soundcore tpm
> i2c_i801 lpc_ich wmi nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc
> binfmt_misc
> dm_crypt hid_microsoft rtsx_pci_sdmmc mmc_core crct10dif_pclmul
> crc32_pclmul
> crc32c_intel serio_raw drm e1000e ptp rtsx_pci pps_core fjes video
> [ 125.109197] CPU: 2 PID: 142 Comm: kworker/u16:6 Tainted: G W
> 4.4.0-rc4-usbbadness-next-20151209+ #3
> [ 125.109198] Hardware name: LENOVO 20BFS0EC00/20BFS0EC00, BIOS
> GMET62WW (2.10 ) 03/19/2014
> [ 125.109202] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
> [ 125.109204] 0000000000000000 00000000202f2ede ffff880402ccfc38
> ffffffff81434509
> [ 125.109206] 0000000000000000 ffff880402ccfc70 ffffffff810ad9c2
> ffff880407a1e000
> [ 125.109208] ffff880407a1e0b0 ffff880407a1e00c ffff880401e48ef0
> ffff8800c90d0600
> [ 125.109211] Call Trace:
> [ 125.109214] [<ffffffff81434509>] dump_stack+0x4b/0x72
> [ 125.109218] [<ffffffff810ad9c2>] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xc0
> [ 125.109220] [<ffffffff810adb0a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
> [ 125.109222] [<ffffffff81414910>] add_disk+0x480/0x4e0
> [ 125.109225] [<ffffffff815e2875>] sd_probe_async+0x115/0x1d0
> [ 125.109227] [<ffffffff810d6cea>] async_run_entry_fn+0x4a/0x140
> [ 125.109231] [<ffffffff810cbb99>] process_one_work+0x239/0x6b0
> [ 125.109233] [<ffffffff810cbb02>] ? process_one_work+0x1a2/0x6b0
> [ 125.109235] [<ffffffff810cc05e>] worker_thread+0x4e/0x490
> [ 125.109237] [<ffffffff810cc010>] ? process_one_work+0x6b0/0x6b0
> [ 125.109238] [<ffffffff810d3091>] kthread+0x101/0x120
> [ 125.109242] [<ffffffff81108999>] ?
> trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x129/0x1b0
> [ 125.109243] [<ffffffff810d2f90>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x250/0x250
> [ 125.109247] [<ffffffff81888a5f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
> [ 125.109248] [<ffffffff810d2f90>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x250/0x250
> [ 125.109250] ---[ end trace d54b73ed8d1295d5 ]---
> [ 125.109272] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
>
> and no partitions so the drive can't be mounted. Note the alua -EINVAL
> error is there even when the drive can be mounted so the warning and
> lack of partitions is the real indication of the problem.
>
> I did a bisect and came up with this as the first bad commit:
>
> commit 086b91d052ebe4ead5d28021afe3bdfd70af15bf
> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Aug 27 14:16:57 2015 +0200
>
> scsi_dh: integrate into the core SCSI code
>
> Stop building scsi_dh as a separate module and integrate it fully
> into the
> core SCSI code with explicit callouts at bus scan time. For now the
> callouts are placed at the same point as the old bus notifiers were
> called,
> but in the future we will be able to look at ALUA INQUIRY data
> earlier on.
>
> Note that this also means that the device handler modules need to be
> loaded
> by the time we scan the bus. The next patches will add support for
> autoloading device handlers at bus scan time to make sure they are
> always
> loaded if they are enabled in the kernel config.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxx>
>
> This was an involved commit so I didn't try to revert. Any ideas here?
> Full bisect log is below
There's a patchset to update the ALUA handler in Martin Petersens 
tree which should help here; most notably the commit 'scsi: ignore 
errors from scsi_dh_add_device()' should fix this particular issue.

Cheers,

Hannes
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