Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 2 authors, 2011-08-26

Re: [PATCH] jbd2: instrument jh on wrong transaction BUG_ON's

From: Curt Wohlgemuth <hidden>
Date: 2011-08-14 20:01:06

Hi Ted:

Unfortunately, some deref in your printk didn't go over too well:

[  970.871166] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
at 0000000000000008
[  970.872139] IP: [<ffffffff812a158e>] jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0x18e/0x220
[  970.872139] PGD 857b8d067 PUD 852f26067 PMD 0
[  970.872139] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[  970.872139] CPU 14
...
[  970.872139] Call Trace:
[  970.872139]  [<ffffffff812a9d26>] ? jbd2_journal_add_journal_head+0x86/0x290
[  970.872139]  [<ffffffff8125c87c>] ? __ext4_journalled_writepage+0xac/0x390
[  970.872139]  [<ffffffff812848b3>] __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0x83/0x120
[  970.872139]  [<ffffffff81284c1e>] ? __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0x3e/0x80
[  970.872139]  [<ffffffff8125cac8>] __ext4_journalled_writepage+0x2f8/0x390
[  970.872139]  [<ffffffff8125e264>] ext4_writepage+0x234/0x2f0
[  970.872139]  [<ffffffff81155ad7>] __writepage+0x17/0x40
...

where the IP corresponds to:

(gdb) list *0xffffffff812a158e
0xffffffff812a158e is in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata
(fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1124).
1119             */
1120            if (jh->b_transaction != transaction) {
1121                    JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "already on other transaction");
1122                    if (unlikely(jh->b_transaction !=
1123                                 journal->j_committing_transaction)) {
1124                            printk(KERN_EMERG "JBD: %s: "
1125                                   "jh->b_transaction (%llu, %p, %u) != "
1126
"journal->j_committing_transaction (%p, %u)",
1127                                   journal->j_devname,
1128                                   (unsigned long long) bh->b_blocknr,

It seems that  jh->b_transaction is NULL, and deferencing it to print
out jh->b_transaction->t_tid causes the NULL pointer deref.

Curt

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Theodore Ts'o [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
These assertions have been reported as being tripped.  Instrument them
so we get more information about what might be going on.

Cc: curtw@google.com
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
---

Curt, you might want to see if you can replicate that jbd2 crash with
this patch applied.  Hopefully we'll get more information about what is
going on.

 fs/jbd2/transaction.c |   42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index 2d71094..693fe63 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -1093,8 +1093,19 @@ int jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh)
        */
       if (jh->b_transaction == transaction && jh->b_jlist == BJ_Metadata) {
               JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "fastpath");
-               J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_transaction ==
-                                       journal->j_running_transaction);
+               if (unlikely(jh->b_transaction !=
+                            journal->j_running_transaction)) {
+                       printk(KERN_EMERG "JBD: %s: "
+                              "jh->b_transaction (%llu, %p, %u) != "
+                              "journal->j_running_transaction (%p, %u)",
+                              journal->j_devname,
+                              (unsigned long long) bh->b_blocknr,
+                              jh->b_transaction,
+                              jh->b_transaction->t_tid,
+                              journal->j_running_transaction,
+                              journal->j_running_transaction->t_tid);
+                       BUG_ON(1);
+               }
               goto out_unlock_bh;
       }
@@ -1108,9 +1119,30 @@ int jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh)
        */
       if (jh->b_transaction != transaction) {
               JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "already on other transaction");
-               J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_transaction ==
-                                       journal->j_committing_transaction);
-               J_ASSERT_JH(jh, jh->b_next_transaction == transaction);
+               if (unlikely(jh->b_transaction !=
+                            journal->j_committing_transaction)) {
+                       printk(KERN_EMERG "JBD: %s: "
+                              "jh->b_transaction (%llu, %p, %u) != "
+                              "journal->j_committing_transaction (%p, %u)",
+                              journal->j_devname,
+                              (unsigned long long) bh->b_blocknr,
+                              jh->b_transaction,
+                              jh->b_transaction->t_tid,
+                              journal->j_committing_transaction,
+                              journal->j_committing_transaction->t_tid);
+                       BUG_ON(1);
+               }
+               if (unlikely(jh->b_next_transaction != transaction)) {
+                       printk(KERN_EMERG "JBD: %s: "
+                              "jh->b_next_transaction (%llu, %p, %u) != "
+                              "transaction (%p, %u)",
+                              journal->j_devname,
+                              (unsigned long long) bh->b_blocknr,
+                              jh->b_next_transaction,
+                              jh->b_next_transaction->t_tid,
+                              transaction, transaction->t_tid);
+                       BUG_ON(1);
+               }
               /* And this case is illegal: we can't reuse another
                * transaction's data buffer, ever. */
               goto out_unlock_bh;
--
1.7.4.1.22.gec8e1.dirty
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