Re: Recurring Oops in link_path_walk()

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 06:07:59PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:

Al,

We've been running Kernel 3.18 for several monthes on our embedded
boards, and we have a recurring Oops in link_path_walk()
It doesn't happen very often (approximatly once every month on one
board among a set of 50 boards, never the same board).

Here below is the last oops I got, with kernel 3.18.22. It crashes
at address 0xc00b75ac. Here below is the full desassembly of
link_path_walk() so that you can see exactly the offending line.

The address it fails at is always the same (link_path_walk+0x414)
but the oopsing data address is each time different. I added all
Oops I got below after the disassembly (on different sub-versions of
3.18).

Looks like garbage in dentry->d_inode, assuming that reconstruction of
the mapping of line numbers to addresses is correct...  Not sure it is,
though; what's more, just how does LR manage to point to the insn right
after the call of dput(), of all things?