panic call trace:
PID: 25992 TASK: ffff883cd7d23500 CPU: 4 COMMAND: "vgchange"
  #0 [ffff883cd743d600] machine_kexec at ffffffff81038fa9
  0000001 [ffff883cd743d660] crash_kexec at ffffffff810c5992
  0000002 [ffff883cd743d730] oops_end at ffffffff81515c90
  0000003 [ffff883cd743d760] no_context at ffffffff81049f1b
  0000004 [ffff883cd743d7b0] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8104a1a5
  0000005 [ffff883cd743d800] bad_area at ffffffff8104a2ce
  0000006 [ffff883cd743d830] __do_page_fault at ffffffff8104aa6f
  0000007 [ffff883cd743d950] do_page_fault at ffffffff81517bae
  0000008 [ffff883cd743d980] page_fault at ffffffff81514f95
     [exception RIP: kmem_cache_alloc+108]
     RIP: ffffffff8116ef3c RSP: ffff883cd743da38 RFLAGS: 00010046
     RAX: 0000000000000004 RBX: ffffffff81121b90 RCX: ffff881bf1e78cc0
     RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000d0 RDI: 0000000000000000
     RBP: ffff883cd743da68 R8: ffff881bf1a4eb00 R9: 0000000080042000
     R10: 0000000000002000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000000000d0
     R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000000000d0 R15: 0000000000000246
     ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
  0000009 [ffff883cd743da70] mempool_alloc_slab at ffffffff81121ba5
0000010 [ffff883cd743da80] mempool_create_node at ffffffff81122083
0000011 [ffff883cd743dad0] mempool_create at ffffffff811220f4
0000012 [ffff883cd743dae0] pool_ctr at ffffffffa08de049 [dm_thin_pool]
0000013 [ffff883cd743dbd0] dm_table_add_target at ffffffffa0005f2f [dm_mod]
0000014 [ffff883cd743dc30] table_load at ffffffffa0008ba9 [dm_mod]
0000015 [ffff883cd743dc90] ctl_ioctl at ffffffffa0009dc4 [dm_mod]
this bug's scence is as follows:
process A(vgchange -ay -K):
a. send DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD ioctl;
b. pool_target not registered;
c. modprobe dm_thin_pool and wait until end.
process B(vgchange -ay -K):
a. send DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD ioctl;
b. pool_target registered;
c. table_load->dm_table_add_target->pool_ctr;
d. _new_mapping_cache is NULL and panic.
note:
1. process A and process B are two concurrent processes.
2. pool_target can be detected by process B but
_new_mapping_cache initialization has not ended.
All that we need do is to ensure pool_target registering ops
is the last ops in dm_thin_init.

Signed-off-by: monty <monty_pavel@sina.com>
---
drivers/md/dm-thin.c |   22 ++++++++++------------
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
index 89e5dff..f91d771 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
@@ -4355,30 +4355,28 @@ static void thin_io_hints(struct dm_target *ti, struct queue_limits *limits)

static int __init dm_thin_init(void)
{
- int r;
+ int r = -ENOMEM;

pool_table_init();

+ _new_mapping_cache = KMEM_CACHE(dm_thin_new_mapping, 0);
+ if (!_new_mapping_cache)
+ return r;
+
r = dm_register_target(&thin_target);
if (r)
- return r;
+ goto bad_new_mapping_cache;

r = dm_register_target(&pool_target);
if (r)
- goto bad_pool_target;
-
- r = -ENOMEM;
-
- _new_mapping_cache = KMEM_CACHE(dm_thin_new_mapping, 0);
- if (!_new_mapping_cache)
- goto bad_new_mapping_cache;
+ goto bad_thin_target;

return 0;

-bad_new_mapping_cache:
- dm_unregister_target(&pool_target);
-bad_pool_target:
+bad_thin_target:
dm_unregister_target(&thin_target);
+bad_new_mapping_cache:
+ kmem_cache_destroy(_new_mapping_cache);

return r;
}
--
1.7.1