Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932488AbVLAVoT (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:44:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932493AbVLAVoT (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:44:19 -0500 Received: from fep30-0.kolumbus.fi ([193.229.0.32]:57436 "EHLO fep30-app.kolumbus.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932488AbVLAVoS (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:44:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 23:44:27 +0200 (EET) From: Kai Makisara X-X-Sender: makisara@kai.makisara.local To: Hugh Dickins cc: Ryan Richter , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , James Bottomley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fw: crash on x86_64 - mm related? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20051129092432.0f5742f0.akpm@osdl.org> <20051201195657.GB7236@tau.solarneutrino.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1815 Lines: 47 On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote: ... > Nick and I had already been looking at drivers/scsi/{sg.c,st.c}, > brought there by __put_page in sg.c's peculiar sg_rb_correct4mmap, > which we'd like to remove. But that's irrelevant to your pain, except... > > One extract from the patches I'd like to send Doug and Kai for 2.6.15 > or 2.6.16 is this below: since the incomplete get_user_pages path omits > to reset res, but has already released all the pages, it will result in > premature freeing of user pages, and behaviour just like you've seen. > > Though I'd have thought incomplete get_user_pages was an exceptional > case, and a bit surprised you'd encounter it. Perhaps there's some > other premature freeing in the driver, and this instance has nothing > whatever to do with it. > > If the problem were easily reproducible, it'd be great if you could > try this patch; but I think you've said it's not :-( > > Hugh > > --- 2.6.14/drivers/scsi/st.c 2005-10-28 01:02:08.000000000 +0100 > +++ linux/drivers/scsi/st.c 2005-12-01 20:06:02.000000000 +0000 > @@ -4511,6 +4511,7 @@ static int sgl_map_user_pages(struct sca > if (res > 0) { > for (j=0; j < res; j++) > page_cache_release(pages[j]); > + res = 0; > } > kfree(pages); > return res; > Whether this fix solves the current problem or not, it clearly fixes a bug. If someone wants to include this into a patch series, you can add Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara If not, I will include this when I send patches next time. Thanks for noticing this problem. Kai - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/