ac->inode is set to null in function ext4_mb_release_group_pa(),
and then trace_ext4_mballoc_discard(ac) is called, the kernel
will panic.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000a4
IP: [<f87e1714>] ftrace_raw_event_ext4__mballoc+0x54/0xc0 [ext4]
*pdpt = 0000000000abd001 *pde = 0000000000000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cache/index1/shared_cpu_map
Modules linked in: autofs4 sunrpc p4_clockmod ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables be2iscsi iscsi_boot_sysfs bnx2i cnic uio cxgb3i cxgb3 mdio ib_iser rdma_cm ib_cm iw_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core ib_addr ipv6 iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod raid0 floppy e1000 sg pcspkr i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support i6300esb sky2 e752x_edac edac_core ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif mptspi mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_spi pata_acpi ata_generic ata_piix [last unloaded: mperf]
Pid: 550, comm: flush-8:16 Not tainted 2.6.36-rc1 #1 SE7320EP2/Altos G530
EIP: 0060:[<f87e1714>] EFLAGS: 00010206 CPU: 1
EIP is at ftrace_raw_event_ext4__mballoc+0x54/0xc0 [ext4]
EAX: f32ac840 EBX: f3f1cf88 ECX: f32ac840 EDX: 00000000
ESI: f32ac83c EDI: f880b9d8 EBP: 00000000 ESP: f4b77ae4
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Process flush-8:16 (pid: 550, ti=f4b76000 task=f613e540 task.ti=f4b76000)
Stack:
00000286 00000000 00000286 f705ec80 f304ad90 f3f1cf88 f4b77b74 f63dc600
<0> f87f5ac1 0000000d f4b77b18 f304a490 00000000 00007df3 00000012 f3c204f8
<0> f3c20184 f3c20508 f3f1cf88 f87f8356 0000002b 95ac1b28 95ac41fc 00000001
Call Trace:
[<f87f5ac1>] ? ext4_mb_release_group_pa+0x121/0x150 [ext4]
[<f87f8356>] ? ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations+0x336/0x400 [ext4]
[<f87fb7f1>] ? ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x3d1/0x4f0 [ext4]
[<c05a6c5b>] ? __make_request+0x10b/0x440
[<f87f1fb4>] ? ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1334/0x1980 [ext4]
[<c04ac78a>] ? rb_reserve_next_event+0xaa/0x3b0
[<f87d18d6>] ? ext4_map_blocks+0xd6/0x1d0 [ext4]
[<f87d2da7>] ? mpage_da_map_blocks+0xc7/0x8a0 [ext4]
[<c04c8a68>] ? find_get_pages_tag+0x38/0x110
[<c04d23a5>] ? __pagevec_release+0x15/0x20
[<f87d3ca5>] ? ext4_da_writepages+0x2b5/0x5d0 [ext4]
[<c04cfbe0>] ? __writepage+0x0/0x30
[<c04d0e34>] ? do_writepages+0x14/0x30
[<c0526600>] ? writeback_single_inode+0xa0/0x240
[<c0526971>] ? writeback_sb_inodes+0xc1/0x180
[<c0526ab8>] ? writeback_inodes_wb+0x88/0x140
[<c0526d7b>] ? wb_writeback+0x20b/0x320
[<c045aca7>] ? lock_timer_base+0x27/0x50
[<c0526fe0>] ? wb_do_writeback+0x150/0x190
[<c05270a8>] ? bdi_writeback_thread+0x88/0x1f0
[<c043b680>] ? complete+0x40/0x60
[<c0527020>] ? bdi_writeback_thread+0x0/0x1f0
[<c0469474>] ? kthread+0x74/0x80
[<c0469400>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80
[<c040a23e>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
Code: e0 ff ff 8b 57 24 8b 68 14 8d 44 24 0c 89 0c 24 b9 24 00 00 00 89 6c 24 04 e8 a9 cf cc c7 85 c0 89 c6 74 47 e8 1e 8a cc c7 8b 13 <8b> 92 a4 00 00 00 89 c1 8b 52 08 89 50 0c 8b 13 8b 52 20 89 50
EIP: [<f87e1714>] ftrace_raw_event_ext4__mballoc+0x54/0xc0 [ext4] SS:ESP 0068:f4b77ae4
CR2: 00000000000000a4
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <[email protected]>
---
include/trace/events/ext4.h | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/trace/events/ext4.h b/include/trace/events/ext4.h
index 01e9e00..6a1fcff 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/ext4.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/ext4.h
@@ -796,8 +796,9 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(ext4__mballoc,
),
TP_fast_assign(
- __entry->dev = ac->ac_inode->i_sb->s_dev;
- __entry->ino = ac->ac_inode->i_ino;
+ __entry->dev = ac->ac_sb->s_dev;
+ __entry->ino = ac->ac_inode ?
+ ac->ac_inode->i_ino : 0;
__entry->result_logical = ac->ac_b_ex.fe_logical;
__entry->result_start = ac->ac_b_ex.fe_start;
__entry->result_group = ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group;
--
1.6.0.2.GIT
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 16:49 +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
> ac->inode is set to null in function ext4_mb_release_group_pa(),
> and then trace_ext4_mballoc_discard(ac) is called, the kernel
> will panic.
> diff --git a/include/trace/events/ext4.h b/include/trace/events/ext4.h
> index 01e9e00..6a1fcff 100644
> --- a/include/trace/events/ext4.h
> +++ b/include/trace/events/ext4.h
> @@ -796,8 +796,9 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(ext4__mballoc,
> ),
>
> TP_fast_assign(
> - __entry->dev = ac->ac_inode->i_sb->s_dev;
> - __entry->ino = ac->ac_inode->i_ino;
> + __entry->dev = ac->ac_sb->s_dev;
> + __entry->ino = ac->ac_inode ?
> + ac->ac_inode->i_ino : 0;
Is i_ino == 0 a valid inode number?
If not, then
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
-- Steve
> __entry->result_logical = ac->ac_b_ex.fe_logical;
> __entry->result_start = ac->ac_b_ex.fe_start;
> __entry->result_group = ac->ac_b_ex.fe_group;