Re: WARNING in __mmdrop

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu Jul 25 2019 - 14:03:18 EST


On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:11:52AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 06:02:52AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 03:08:00AM -0700, syzbot wrote:
> > > syzbot has bisected this bug to:
> > >
> > > commit 7f466032dc9e5a61217f22ea34b2df932786bbfc
> > > Author: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Fri May 24 08:12:18 2019 +0000
> > >
> > > vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address
> > >
> > > bisection log: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/bisect.txt?x=149a8a20600000
> > > start commit: 6d21a41b Add linux-next specific files for 20190718
> > > git tree: linux-next
> > > final crash: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/report.txt?x=169a8a20600000
> > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=129a8a20600000
> > > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=3430a151e1452331
> > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e58112d71f77113ddb7b
> > > syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=10139e68600000
> > >
> > > Reported-by: syzbot+e58112d71f77113ddb7b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Fixes: 7f466032dc9e ("vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual
> > > address")
> > >
> > > For information about bisection process see: https://goo.gl/tpsmEJ#bisection
> >
> >
> > OK I poked at this for a bit, I see several things that
> > we need to fix, though I'm not yet sure it's the reason for
> > the failures:
>
> This stuff looks quite similar to the hmm_mirror use model and other
> places in the kernel. I'm still hoping we can share this code a bit more.

Right. I think hmm is something we should look at.

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