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 03:53:10
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: block layer, the rest · Maintainers: Jens Axboe, Linus Torvalds

Christoph,

On 2/22/21 19:07, John Stultz wrote:
[   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
Looking at the other call sites do we need something like following ?
diff --git a/block/bounce.c b/block/bounce.c
index fc55314aa426..f8a3656e89c3 100644
--- a/block/bounce.c
+++ b/block/bounce.c
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ static void bounce_end_io_read_isa(struct bio *bio)
 static struct bio *bounce_clone_bio(struct bio *bio_src, gfp_t gfp_mask,
                struct bio_set *bs)
 {
+       unsigned int nr_iovecs = bio_segments(bio_src);
        struct bvec_iter iter;
        struct bio_vec bv;
        struct bio *bio;
@@ -243,7 +244,11 @@ static struct bio *bounce_clone_bio(struct bio
*bio_src, gfp_t gfp_mask,
         *    __bio_clone_fast() anyways.
         */
 
-       bio = bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_mask, bio_segments(bio_src), bs);
+       if (bs)
+               bio = bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_mask, nr_iovecs, bs);
+       else
+               bio = bio_kmalloc(gfp_mask, nr_iovecs);
+
        if (!bio)
                return NULL;
        bio->bi_bdev            = bio_src->bi_bdev;

Since __blk_queue_bounce() passes the NULL for the passthru case as a
bio_set value ?
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