On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 04:42:18PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > [64394.422743] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000078 > [64394.426716] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0010e0f>] [<ffffffffa0010e0f>] btrfs_search_slot+0xbf/0x9e0 [btrfs] > [64394.426716] [<ffffffffa0014977>] btrfs_next_old_leaf+0x247/0x4e0 [btrfs] > [64394.426716] [<ffffffffa0014c20>] btrfs_next_leaf+0x10/0x20 [btrfs] The bisection set was reduced to these patches (on top of cmason/for-linus 4bc4bee45): 1 Btrfs: cleanup unused function Liu Bo 2 btrfs: enhance superblock checks David Sterba 3 Btrfs: add some free space cache tests Josef Bacik 4 btrfs: merge save_error_info helpers into one David Sterba 5 btrfs: clean up transaction abort messages David Sterba 6 Btrfs: cleanup unused arguments of btrfs_csum_data Liu Bo 7 Btrfs: use helper to cleanup tree roots Liu Bo 8 Btrfs: add a incompatible format change for smaller metadata extent ref Josef Bacik The bisecting process points to patch 8, ie the 'first bad', but the reproducer has proved to be unreliable and I think it's very sensitive to scheduling timing. Reproducer is to simply run 273 in a loop on a single/single filesystem, the null deref happens during umount. The tricky part is that it does not happen every time, I must not touch the testbox nor let any process run except 'dstat'. It usually crashed on first or second test run, but I've left it up to 10 to be sure. I don't think it's caused by the skinny metadata, because it does not touch the affected functions, but somehow helps to make it visible. Although the test never crashed when patch 7 Btrfs: use helper to cleanup tree roots http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/josef/btrfs-next.git/commit/?id=3fa215686c574d26f43f1bcf6c9f69658e02908f was on top (I once left it running overnight, all fine), that's my main suspect: --- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c @@ -3483,20 +3483,7 @@ int close_ctree(struct btrfs_root *root) percpu_counter_sum(&fs_info->delalloc_bytes)); } - free_extent_buffer(fs_info->extent_root->node); - free_extent_buffer(fs_info->extent_root->commit_root); - free_extent_buffer(fs_info->tree_root->node); - free_extent_buffer(fs_info->tree_root->commit_root); - free_extent_buffer(fs_info->chunk_root->node); - free_extent_buffer(fs_info->chunk_root->commit_root); - free_extent_buffer(fs_info->dev_root->node); - free_extent_buffer(fs_info->dev_root->commit_root); - free_extent_buffer(fs_info->csum_root->node); - free_extent_buffer(fs_info->csum_root->commit_root); - if (fs_info->quota_root) { - free_extent_buffer(fs_info->quota_root->node); - free_extent_buffer(fs_info->quota_root->commit_root); - } + free_root_pointers(fs_info, 1); and if you look what free_root_pointers does, sets all the pointers to NULL. The crash site: gdb) l *(btrfs_search_slot+0xb6) 0x11076 is in btrfs_search_slot (/home/dsterba/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:95). 90 * 91 * Atomically increments @v by 1. 92 */ 93 static inline void atomic_inc(atomic_t *v) 94 { 95 asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "incl %0" 96 : "+m" (v->counter)); 97 } (gdb) l *(btrfs_search_slot+0xb5) 0x11075 is in btrfs_search_slot (fs/btrfs/ctree.c:2513). 2508 if (p->search_commit_root) { 2509 /* 2510 * the commit roots are read only 2511 * so we always do read locks 2512 */ 2513 b = root->commit_root; 2514 extent_buffer_get(b); 2515 level = btrfs_header_level(b); 2516 if (!p->skip_locking) 2517 btrfs_tree_read_lock(b); so it's the extent_buffer_get() call, the offset of ->refs field is 120 = 0x78, matches "NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000078". So root->commit_root is NULL. If we look what happens in disk-io.c::close_ctree: 3476 fs_info->closing = 2; 3477 smp_mb(); ... 3486 free_root_pointers(fs_info, 1); 3487 3488 btrfs_free_block_groups(fs_info); 3489 3490 del_fs_roots(fs_info); 3491 3492 iput(fs_info->btree_inode); 3493 3494 btrfs_stop_workers(&fs_info->generic_worker); ... 3507 btrfs_stop_workers(&fs_info->caching_workers); Line 3477 assures that caching thread will exit the main loop when it sees fs_closing > 1, but if it's past this check yet has to do some work, and close_tree() calls free_root_pointers(), bang. As we can see the caching thread goes down later. What I see here is a use-after-free that has been undetected so far and only exposed by patch 7. This diff looks like the fix (on top of patch 8): --- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c @@ -3486,14 +3486,14 @@ int close_ctree(struct btrfs_root *root) percpu_counter_sum(&fs_info->delalloc_bytes)); } - free_root_pointers(fs_info, 1); - btrfs_free_block_groups(fs_info); del_fs_roots(fs_info); iput(fs_info->btree_inode); + free_root_pointers(fs_info, 1); + btrfs_stop_workers(&fs_info->generic_worker); btrfs_stop_workers(&fs_info->fixup_workers); btrfs_stop_workers(&fs_info->delalloc_workers); --- david -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
