From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>,
open-iscsi@googlegroups.com,
Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [4.10, panic, regression] iscsi: null pointer deref at iscsi_tcp_segment_done+0x20d/0x2e0
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 13:28:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170103122825.GC3780@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170102211136.GA3189@cmpxchg.org>
On Mon 02-01-17 16:11:36, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 03:33:29AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 02:32:41AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:22:27PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 21 Dec 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> > > > > > I unmounted the fs, mkfs'd it again, ran the
> > > > > > workload again and about a minute in this fired:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > [628867.607417] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > > > > [628867.608603] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 16925 at mm/workingset.c:461 shadow_lru_isolate+0x171/0x220
> > > > >
> > > > > Well, part of the changes during the merge window were the shadow
> > > > > entry tracking changes that came in through Andrew's tree. Adding
> > > > > Johannes Weiner to the participants.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Now, this workload does not touch the page cache at all - it's
> > > > > > entirely an XFS metadata workload, so it should not really be
> > > > > > affecting the working set code.
> > > > >
> > > > > Well, I suspect that anything that creates memory pressure will end up
> > > > > triggering the working set code, so ..
> > > > >
> > > > > That said, obviously memory corruption could be involved and result in
> > > > > random issues too, but I wouldn't really expect that in this code.
> > > > >
> > > > > It would probably be really useful to get more data points - is the
> > > > > problem reliably in this area, or is it going to be random and all
> > > > > over the place.
> > > >
> > > > Data point: kswapd got WARNING on mm/workingset.c:457 in shadow_lru_isolate,
> > > > soon followed by NULL pointer deref in list_lru_isolate, one time when
> > > > I tried out Sunday's git tree. Not seen since, I haven't had time to
> > > > investigate, just set it aside as something to worry about if it happens
> > > > again. But it looks like shadow_lru_isolate() has issues beyond Dave's
> > > > case (I've no XFS and no iscsi), suspect unrelated to his other problems.
> > >
> > > This seems consistent with what Dave observed: we encounter regular
> > > pages in radix tree nodes on the shadow LRU that should only contain
> > > nodes full of exceptional shadow entries. It could be an issue in the
> > > new slot replacement code and the node tracking callback.
> >
> > Both encounters seem to indicate use-after-free. Dave's node didn't
> > warn about an unexpected node->count / node->exceptional state, but
> > had entries that were inconsistent with that. Hugh got the counter
> > warning but crashed on a list_head that's not NULLed in a live node.
> >
> > workingset_update_node() should be called on page cache radix tree
> > leaf nodes that go empty. I must be missing an update_node callback
> > where a leaf node gets freed somewhere.
>
> Sorry for dropping silent on this. I'm traveling over the holidays
> with sporadic access to my emails and no access to real equipment.
>
> The times I managed to sneak away to look at the code didn't turn up
> anything useful yet.
>
> Andrea encountered the warning as well and I gave him a debugging
> patch (attached below), but he hasn't been able to reproduce this
> condition. I've personally never seen the warning trigger, even though
> the patches have been running on my main development machine for quite
> a while now. Albeit against an older base; I've updated to Linus's
> master branch now in case it's an interaction with other new code.
>
> If anybody manages to reproduce this, that would be helpful. Any extra
> eyes on this would be much appreciated too until I'm back at my desk.
I was looking into this but I didn't find a way how we could possibly leave
radix tree node on LRU. So your debug patch looks like a good way forward.
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-03 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-14 22:24 [4.10, panic, regression] iscsi: null pointer deref at iscsi_tcp_segment_done+0x20d/0x2e0 Dave Chinner
2016-12-14 22:29 ` Dave Chinner
2016-12-16 18:59 ` Chris Leech
2016-12-21 22:16 ` Dave Chinner
2016-12-21 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-22 0:13 ` Chris Leech
2016-12-22 5:13 ` Dave Chinner
2016-12-22 5:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-22 6:50 ` Dave Chinner
2016-12-22 18:50 ` Chris Leech
2016-12-22 23:53 ` Ming Lei
2016-12-23 0:03 ` Chris Leech
2016-12-23 10:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-23 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-24 2:45 ` Jens Axboe
2016-12-24 9:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-24 10:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-24 13:17 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-12-24 13:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-04 14:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-22 20:22 ` Hugh Dickins
2016-12-23 7:32 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-12-23 8:33 ` Johannes Weiner
2017-01-02 21:11 ` Johannes Weiner
2017-01-03 12:28 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2017-01-04 15:26 ` Laurence Oberman
2017-01-04 17:38 ` Laurence Oberman
2017-01-08 2:02 ` Johannes Weiner
2017-01-08 2:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-09 20:30 ` Jan Kara
2017-01-09 20:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-12-22 6:28 ` Dave Chinner
2016-12-22 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-22 20:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-12-22 20:42 ` Dave Chinner
2016-12-22 21:06 ` Dave Chinner
2016-12-22 21:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-22 22:15 ` Dave Chinner
2016-12-22 22:33 ` Dave Chinner
2016-12-23 3:52 ` Dave Chinner
2016-12-23 0:16 ` Jens Axboe
2016-12-22 6:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-22 6:30 ` Dave Chinner
2016-12-22 6:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
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