Re: v4.16-rc2: virtio-block + ext4 lockdep splats / sleeping from invalid context

[Jan Kara]

On Mon 26-02-18 11:38:19, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:52:56AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Fri 23-02-18 15:47:36, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > While fuzzing arm64/v4.16-rc2 with syzkaller, I simultaneously hit a
> > > number of splats in the block layer:
> > > 
> > > * inconsistent {HARDIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-HARDIRQ-R} usage in
> > >   jbd2_trans_will_send_data_barrier
> > > 
> > > * BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/mempool.c:320
> > > 
> > > * WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at block/blk.h:297 generic_make_request_checks+0x670/0x750
> > > 
> > > ... I've included the full splats at the end of the mail.
> > > 
> > > These all happen in the context of the virtio block IRQ handler, so I
> > > wonder if this calls something that doesn't expect to be called from IRQ
> > > context. Is it valid to call blk_mq_complete_request() or
> > > blk_mq_end_request() from an IRQ handler?
> > 
> > No, it's likely a bug in detection whether IO completion should be deferred
> > to a workqueue or not. Does attached patch fix the problem? I don't see
> > exactly this being triggered by the syzkaller but it's close enough :)
> > 
> > 								Honza
> 
> That seems to be it!
> 
> With the below patch applied, I can't trigger the bug after ~10 minutes,
> whereas prior to the patch I can trigger it in ~10 seconds. I'll leave
> that running for a while just in case there's another part to the
> problem, but FWIW:
> 
> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

Thanks for testing! Sent the patch to Jens for inclusion.

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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