Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 3 authors, 2021-02-23

Re: [REGRESSION] "split bio_kmalloc from bio_alloc_bioset" causing crash shortly after bootup

From: Chaitanya Kulkarni <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-23 03:41:16
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: block layer, the rest · Maintainers: Jens Axboe, Linus Torvalds

On 2/22/21 19:07, John Stultz wrote:
[   34.784901] ueventd: LoadWithAliases was unable to load platform:regulatory
[   34.785313]  bio_alloc_bioset+0x14/0x230
[   34.796189]  bio_clone_fast+0x28/0x80
[   34.799848]  bio_split+0x50/0xd0
[   34.803072]  blk_crypto_fallback_encrypt_bio+0x2ec/0x5e8
[   34.808384]  blk_crypto_fallback_bio_prep+0xfc/0x140
[   34.813345]  __blk_crypto_bio_prep+0x13c/0x150
[   34.817784]  submit_bio_noacct+0x3c0/0x548
[   34.821880]  submit_bio+0x48/0x200
[   34.825278]  ext4_io_submit+0x50/0x68
[   34.828939]  ext4_writepages+0x558/0xca8
[   34.832860]  do_writepages+0x58/0x108
[   34.836522]  __writeback_single_inode+0x44/0x510
[   34.841137]  writeback_sb_inodes+0x1e0/0x4a8
[   34.845404]  __writeback_inodes_wb+0x78/0xe8
[   34.849670]  wb_writeback+0x274/0x3e8
[   34.853328]  wb_workfn+0x308/0x5f0
[   34.856726]  process_one_work+0x1ec/0x4d0
[   34.860734]  worker_thread+0x44/0x478
[   34.864392]  kthread+0x140/0x150
[   34.867618]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x30
[   34.871197] Code: a9ba7bfd 910003fd f9000bf3 7900bfa1 (f9403441)
[   34.877289] ---[ end trace e6c2a3ab108278f0 ]---
[   34.893636] Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception
If you have time then until you get the reply from others, can you try
following patch ?
diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index a1c4d2900c7a..9976400ec66a 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -663,7 +663,10 @@ struct bio *bio_clone_fast(struct bio *bio, gfp_t
gfp_mask, struct bio_set *bs)
 {
        struct bio *b;
 
-       b = bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_mask, 0, bs);
+       if (bs)
+               b = bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_mask, 0, bs);
+       else
+               b = bio_kmalloc(gfp_mask, 0);
        if (!b)
                return NULL;

P.S.This is purely based on the code inspection and it may not solve your
issue. Proceed with the caution as it may *break* your system.
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