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authorMasanori ITOH <itoumsn@nttdata.co.jp>2010-10-26 14:21:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-26 16:52:04 -0700
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percpu: fix list_head init bug in __percpu_counter_init()
WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:26 __list_add+0x3f/0x81() Hardware name: Express5800/B120a [N8400-085] list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffffffff81a7ea00), but was dead000000200200. (next=ffff88080b872d58). Modules linked in: aoe ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat autofs4 sunrpc bridge 8021q garp stp llc ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table dm_round_robin dm_multipath kvm_intel kvm uinput lpfc scsi_transport_fc igb ioatdma scsi_tgt i2c_i801 i2c_core dca iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support pcspkr shpchp megaraid_sas [last unloaded: aoe] Pid: 54, comm: events/3 Tainted: G W 2.6.34-vanilla1 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8104bd77>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0x94 [<ffffffff8104bde6>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43 [<ffffffff8120fd2e>] __list_add+0x3f/0x81 [<ffffffff81212a12>] __percpu_counter_init+0x59/0x6b [<ffffffff810d8499>] bdi_init+0x118/0x17e [<ffffffff811f2c50>] blk_alloc_queue_node+0x79/0x143 [<ffffffff811f2d2b>] blk_alloc_queue+0x11/0x13 [<ffffffffa02a931d>] aoeblk_gdalloc+0x8e/0x1c9 [aoe] [<ffffffffa02aa655>] aoecmd_sleepwork+0x25/0xa8 [aoe] [<ffffffff8106186c>] worker_thread+0x1a9/0x237 [<ffffffffa02aa630>] ? aoecmd_sleepwork+0x0/0xa8 [aoe] [<ffffffff81065827>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x39 [<ffffffff810616c3>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x237 [<ffffffff810653ad>] kthread+0x7f/0x87 [<ffffffff8100aa24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [<ffffffff8106532e>] ? kthread+0x0/0x87 [<ffffffff8100aa20>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 It's because there is no initialization code for a list_head contained in the struct backing_dev_info under CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, and the bug comes up when block device drivers calling blk_alloc_queue() are used. In case of me, I got them by using aoe. Signed-off-by: Masanori Itoh <itoumsn@nttdata.co.jp> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/percpu_counter.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/percpu_counter.c b/lib/percpu_counter.c
index ec9048e74f44..209448e1d2b9 100644
--- a/lib/percpu_counter.c
+++ b/lib/percpu_counter.c
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ int __percpu_counter_init(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount,
if (!fbc->counters)
return -ENOMEM;
#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fbc->list);
mutex_lock(&percpu_counters_lock);
list_add(&fbc->list, &percpu_counters);
mutex_unlock(&percpu_counters_lock);