Mike reported a kernel crash when a usb key hotplug is performed while all
kernel thrads are not in a root cgroup and are running in one of the child
cgroups of blkio controller.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000002c
IP: [<c11c7b08>] cfq_get_queue+0x232/0x412
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/host3/scsi_host/host3/uevent
[..]
Pid: 30039, comm: scsi_scan_3 Not tainted 2.6.35.2-fg.roam #1 Volvi2 /Aspire 4315
EIP: 0060:[<c11c7b08>] EFLAGS: 00010086 CPU: 0
EIP is at cfq_get_queue+0x232/0x412
EAX: f705f9c0 EBX: e977abac ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000
ESI: f00da400 EDI: f00da4ec EBP: e977a800 ESP: dff8fd00
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
Process scsi_scan_3 (pid: 30039, ti=dff8e000 task=f6b6c9a0 task.ti=dff8e000)
Stack:
00000000 00000000 00000001 01ff0000 f00da508 00000000 f00da524 f00da540
<0> e7994940 dd631750 f705f9c0 e977a820 e977ac44 f00da4d0 00000001 f6b6c9a0
<0> 00000010 00008010 0000000b 00000000 00000001 e977a800 dd76fac0 00000246
Call Trace:
[<c11c7f10>] ? cfq_set_request+0x228/0x34c
[<c11c7ce8>] ? cfq_set_request+0x0/0x34c
[<c11bb3b9>] ? elv_set_request+0xf/0x1c
[<c11bdd51>] ? get_request+0x1ad/0x22f
[<c11bddf2>] ? get_request_wait+0x1f/0x11a
[<c11d013b>] ? kvasprintf+0x33/0x3b
[<c127b537>] ? scsi_execute+0x1d/0x103
[<c127b675>] ? scsi_execute_req+0x58/0x83
[<c127c391>] ? scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x188/0x7c2
[<c12718c6>] ? attribute_container_add_device+0x15/0xfa
[<c11c95d1>] ? kobject_get+0xf/0x13
[<c126d1db>] ? get_device+0x10/0x14
[<c127be93>] ? scsi_alloc_target+0x217/0x24d
[<c127cbd8>] ? __scsi_scan_target+0x95/0x480
[<c10204eb>] ? dequeue_entity+0x14/0x1fe
[<c1020491>] ? update_curr+0x165/0x1ab
[<c1020491>] ? update_curr+0x165/0x1ab
[<c127d00d>] ? scsi_scan_channel+0x4a/0x76
[<c127d0b0>] ? scsi_scan_host_selected+0x77/0xad
[<c127d13c>] ? do_scan_async+0x0/0x11a
[<c127d137>] ? do_scsi_scan_host+0x51/0x56
[<c127d13c>] ? do_scan_async+0x0/0x11a
[<c127d14a>] ? do_scan_async+0xe/0x11a
[<c127d13c>] ? do_scan_async+0x0/0x11a
[<c10354c5>] ? kthread+0x5e/0x63
[<c1035467>] ? kthread+0x0/0x63
[<c1002af6>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
Code: 44 24 1c 54 83 44 24 18 54 83 fa 03 75 94 8b 06 c7 86 64 02 00 00 01 00 00 00 83 e0 03 09 f0 89 06 8b 44 24 28 8b 90 58 01 00 00 <8b> 42 2c 85 c0 75 03 8b 42 08 8d 54 24 48 52 8d 4c 24 50 51 68
EIP: [<c11c7b08>] cfq_get_queue+0x232/0x412 SS:ESP 0068:dff8fd00
CR2: 000000000000002c
---[ end trace 9a88306573f69b12 ]---
The problem here is that we don't have bdi->dev information available when
thread does some IO. Hence when dev_name() tries to access bdi->dev, it
crashes.
This problem does not happen if kernel threads are in root group as root
group is statically allocated at device initialization time and we don't
hit this piece of code.
Fix it by delaying the filling of major and minor number information of
device in blk_group. Initially a blk_group is created with 0 as device
information and this information is filled later once some more IO comes
in from same group.
Reported-by: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Vivek Goyal
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