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Re: [Xen-devel] [BUG] kernel BUG at drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c:1711



On 14.07.2016 15:04, Bob Liu wrote:

On 07/14/2016 07:49 PM, Evgenii Shatokhin wrote:
On 11.07.2016 15:04, Bob Liu wrote:


On 07/11/2016 04:50 PM, Evgenii Shatokhin wrote:
On 06.06.2016 11:42, Dario Faggioli wrote:
Just Cc-ing some Linux, block, and Xen on CentOS people...


Ping.

Any suggestions how to debug this or what might cause the problem?

Obviously, we cannot control Xen on the Amazon's servers. But perhaps there is 
something we can do at the kernel's side, is it?

On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 11:24 +0300, Evgenii Shatokhin wrote:
(Resending this bug report because the message I sent last week did
not
make it to the mailing list somehow.)

Hi,

One of our users gets kernel panics from time to time when he tries
to
use his Amazon EC2 instance with CentOS7 x64 in it [1]. Kernel panic
happens within minutes from the moment the instance starts. The
problem
does not show up every time, however.

The user first observed the problem with a custom kernel, but it was
found later that the stock kernel 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 from
CentOS7 was affected as well.

Please try this patch:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7b0767502b5db11cb1f0daef2d01f6d71b1192dc

Regards,
Bob


Unfortunately, it did not help. The same BUG_ON() in blkfront_setup_indirect() 
still triggers in our kernel based on RHEL's 3.10.0-327.18.2, where I added the 
patch.

As far as I can see, the patch makes sure the indirect pages are added to the list 
only if (!info->feature_persistent) holds. I suppose it holds in our case and 
the pages are added to the list because the triggered BUG_ON() is here:

     if (!info->feature_persistent && info->max_indirect_segments) {
         <...>
         BUG_ON(!list_empty(&info->indirect_pages));
         <...>
     }


That's odd.
Could you please try to reproduce this issue with a recent upstream kernel?

Yes, will try to.


Thanks,
Bob

So the problem is still out there somewhere, it seems.

Regards,
Evgenii


The part of the system log he was able to retrieve is attached. Here
is
the bug info, for convenience:

------------------------------------
[    2.246912] kernel BUG at drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c:1711!
[    2.246912] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[    2.246912] Modules linked in: ata_generic pata_acpi
crct10dif_pclmul
crct10dif_common crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel
xen_netfront xen_blkfront(+) aesni_intel lrw ata_piix gf128mul
glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd libata serio_raw floppy sunrpc
dm_mirror
dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod scsi_transport_iscsi
[    2.246912] CPU: 1 PID: 50 Comm: xenwatch Not tainted
3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 #1
[    2.246912] Hardware name: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.2.amazon
12/07/2015
[    2.246912] task: ffff8800e9fcb980 ti: ffff8800e98bc000 task.ti:
ffff8800e98bc000
[    2.246912] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa015584f>]  [<ffffffffa015584f>]
blkfront_setup_indirect+0x41f/0x430 [xen_blkfront]
[    2.246912] RSP: 0018:ffff8800e98bfcd0  EFLAGS: 00010283
[    2.246912] RAX: ffff8800353e15c0 RBX: ffff8800e98c52c8 RCX:
0000000000000020
[    2.246912] RDX: ffff8800353e15b0 RSI: ffff8800e98c52b8 RDI:
ffff8800353e15d0
[    2.246912] RBP: ffff8800e98bfd20 R08: ffff8800353e15b0 R09:
ffff8800eb403c00
[    2.246912] R10: ffffffffa0155532 R11: ffffffffffffffe8 R12:
ffff8800e98c4000
[    2.246912] R13: ffff8800e98c52b8 R14: 0000000000000020 R15:
ffff8800353e15c0
[    2.246912] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8800efc20000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[    2.246912] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[    2.246912] CR2: 00007f1b615ef000 CR3: 00000000e2b44000 CR4:
00000000001406e0
[    2.246912] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2:
0000000000000000
[    2.246912] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7:
0000000000000400
[    2.246912] Stack:
[    2.246912]  0000000000000020 0000000000000001 00000020a0157217
00000100e98bfdbc
[    2.246912]  0000000027efa3ef ffff8800e98bfdbc ffff8800e98ce000
ffff8800e98c4000
[    2.246912]  ffff8800e98ce040 0000000000000001 ffff8800e98bfe08
ffffffffa0155d4c
[    2.246912] Call Trace:
[    2.246912]  [<ffffffffa0155d4c>] blkback_changed+0x4ec/0xfc8
[xen_blkfront]
[    2.246912]  [<ffffffff813a6fd0>] ? xenbus_gather+0x170/0x190
[    2.246912]  [<ffffffff816322f5>] ? __slab_free+0x10e/0x277
[    2.246912]  [<ffffffff813a805d>]
xenbus_otherend_changed+0xad/0x110
[    2.246912]  [<ffffffff813a7257>] ? xenwatch_thread+0x77/0x180
[    2.246912]  [<ffffffff813a9ba3>] backend_changed+0x13/0x20
[    2.246912]  [<ffffffff813a7246>] xenwatch_thread+0x66/0x180
[    2.246912]  [<ffffffff810a6ae0>] ? wake_up_atomic_t+0x30/0x30
[    2.246912]  [<ffffffff813a71e0>] ?
unregister_xenbus_watch+0x1f0/0x1f0
[    2.246912]  [<ffffffff810a5aef>] kthread+0xcf/0xe0
[    2.246912]  [<ffffffff810a5a20>] ?
kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
[    2.246912]  [<ffffffff81646118>] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
[    2.246912]  [<ffffffff810a5a20>] ?
kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
[    2.246912] Code: e1 48 85 c0 75 ce 49 8d 84 24 40 01 00 00 48 89
45
b8 e9 91 fd ff ff 4c 89 ff e8 8d ae 06 e1 e9 f2 fc ff ff 31 c0 e9 2e
fe
ff ff <0f> 0b e8 9a 57 f2 e0 0f 0b 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44
00
[    2.246912] RIP  [<ffffffffa015584f>]
blkfront_setup_indirect+0x41f/0x430 [xen_blkfront]
[    2.246912]  RSP <ffff8800e98bfcd0>
[    2.491574] ---[ end trace 8a9b992812627c71 ]---
[    2.495618] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
------------------------------------

Xen version 4.2.

EC2 instance type: c3.large with EBS magnetic storage, if that
matters.

Here is the code where the BUG_ON triggers (drivers/block/xen-
blkfront.c):
------------------------------------
if (!info->feature_persistent && info->max_indirect_segments) {
        /*
            * We are using indirect descriptors but not persistent
            * grants, we need to allocate a set of pages that can be
            * used for mapping indirect grefs
            */
        int num = INDIRECT_GREFS(segs) * BLK_RING_SIZE;

        BUG_ON(!list_empty(&info->indirect_pages)); // << This one hits.
        for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
            struct page *indirect_page = alloc_page(GFP_NOIO);
            if (!indirect_page)
                goto out_of_memory;
            list_add(&indirect_page->lru, &info->indirect_pages);
        }
}
------------------------------------

As we checked, 'info->indirect_pages' list indeed contained around
30
elements at that point.

Any ideas what may cause this and how to fix it?

If any other data are needed, please let me know.

References:
[1] https://bugs.openvz.org/browse/OVZ-6718
.



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