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
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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 ?