Re: ata: BUG in ata_sff_hsm_move

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Jan 29 2016 - 06:52:20 EST


Hello, Dmitry.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:35:43PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I episodically hit the following BUG while running syzkaller fuzzer:
>
> ata2: protocol 2 task_state 0 (dev_stat 0x41)
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:1302!
...
> So the unexpected state is HSM_IDLE.

Hmmm... the port interrupt handler checks for IDLE before calling into
hsm_move, so the only explanation would be that something is resetting
it to IDLE inbetween. ce7514526742 ("libata: prevent HSM state change
race between ISR and PIO") describes and fixes the same problem. The
fix seems correct and I can't find anywhere else where this can
happen. :(

Can you please post the kernel log leading to the BUG? Also, I don't
think that condition needs to be BUG. I'll change it to WARN.

Thanks.

--
tejun