From: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: NULL data pointer dereference in kcryptd Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 12:07:12 +0200 Message-ID: <200908011207.13090.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <200907312254.45630.mb@bu3sch.de> <20090801002708.GA6292@gondor.apana.org.au> <4A74050B.6080608@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: device-mapper development , davem@davemloft.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: Milan Broz Return-path: Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:42814 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751505AbZHAKHQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Aug 2009 06:07:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A74050B.6080608@redhat.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Saturday 01 August 2009 11:04:11 Milan Broz wrote: > Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:54:45PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > >> [15577.988608] NIP [c0000000000b8034] .mempool_alloc+0x74/0x1a0 > >> [15577.988614] LR [c000000000139bdc] .bio_alloc_bioset+0x4c/0x130 > >> [15577.988616] Call Trace: > >> [15577.988619] [c0000001f022fb60] [c0000001f022fbf0] 0xc0000001f022fbf0 (unreliable) > >> [15577.988625] [c0000001f022fc40] [c000000000139bdc] .bio_alloc_bioset+0x4c/0x130 > >> [15577.988632] [c0000001f022fcf0] [c0000000005334a0] .kcryptd_crypt+0x210/0x520 > >> [15577.988637] [c0000001f022fde0] [c000000000068018] .worker_thread+0x248/0x3e0 > >> [15577.988642] [c0000001f022ff00] [c00000000006e1e4] .kthread+0x84/0xe0 > >> [15577.988648] [c0000001f022ff90] [c000000000021830] .kernel_thread+0x54/0x70 > > That seems like mempool is NULL in bio_alloc_bioset. That mempool/bioset is destroyed only > when crypt mapping is destroyed, after workqueue is flushed, so it should not happen... > > Which command did you exactly run to trigger this? only sync & mkfs on existing > LUKS device or there was also some cryptsetup luksClose (or something removing > mapping) before? I started mke2fs on a large luks mapping (1TB). So that takes quite a while. So I had some time to do some other stuff simultaneously. It happens that I did a "sync" while the mke2fs command was still running. The sync immediately froze. Then after mke2fs finished writing the inode tables it also froze. Then I looked into dmesg and saw the oops. I don't think I did a cryptsetup action while mke2fs was running. I just mounted a few USB sticks and copied a few files around and did that sync operation... > > > kcryptd actually belongs to drivers/md/dm-crypt.c. So please post > > to the DM list. > > yes, this is dm-crypt or block layer problem. But I read linux-crypto list too:-) > > Milan > -- > mbroz@redhat.com > > > -- Greetings, Michael.