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Olof Johansson 4638a83e86 block: uninitialized ioc->nr_tasks triggers WARN_ON 
Hi,

I'm using the old-fashioned 'dump' backup tool, and I noticed that it spews the
below warning as of 3.5-rc1 and later (3.4 is fine):

[   10.886893] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   10.886904] WARNING: at include/linux/iocontext.h:140 copy_process+0x1488/0x1560()
[   10.886905] Hardware name: Bochs
[   10.886906] Modules linked in:
[   10.886908] Pid: 2430, comm: dump Not tainted 3.5.0-rc7+ #27
[   10.886908] Call Trace:
[   10.886911]  [<ffffffff8107ce8a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
[   10.886912]  [<ffffffff8107ced5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[   10.886913]  [<ffffffff8107c088>] copy_process+0x1488/0x1560
[   10.886914]  [<ffffffff8107c244>] do_fork+0xb4/0x340
[   10.886918]  [<ffffffff8108effa>] ? recalc_sigpending+0x1a/0x50
[   10.886919]  [<ffffffff8108f6b2>] ? __set_task_blocked+0x32/0x80
[   10.886920]  [<ffffffff81091afa>] ? __set_current_blocked+0x3a/0x60
[   10.886923]  [<ffffffff81051db3>] sys_clone+0x23/0x30
[   10.886925]  [<ffffffff8179bd73>] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
[   10.886927]  [<ffffffff8179baa2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[   10.886928] ---[ end trace 32a14af7ee6a590b ]---

Reproducing is easy, I can hit it on a KVM system with a very basic
config (x86_64 make defconfig + enable the drivers needed). To hit it,
just install dump (on debian/ubuntu, not sure what the package might be
called on Fedora), and:

dump -o -f /tmp/foo /

You'll see the warning in dmesg once it forks off the I/O process and
starts dumping filesystem contents.

I bisected it down to the following commit:

commit f6e8d01bee
Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon Mar 5 13:15:26 2012 -0800

    block: add io_context->active_ref

    Currently ioc->nr_tasks is used to decide two things - whether an ioc
    is done issuing IOs and whether it's shared by multiple tasks.  This
    patch separate out the first into ioc->active_ref, which is acquired
    and released using {get|put}_io_context_active() respectively.

    This will be used to associate bio's with a given task.  This patch
    doesn't introduce any visible behavior change.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

It seems like the init of ioc->nr_tasks was removed in that patch,
so it starts out at 0 instead of 1.

Tejun, is the right thing here to add back the init, or should something else
be done?

The below patch removes the warning, but I haven't done any more extensive
testing on it.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-08-01 12:17:27 +02:00
..
partitions s390/dasd: re-prioritize partition detection message 2012-05-16 14:42:51 +02:00
blk-cgroup.c blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation 2012-06-26 18:42:49 -04:00
blk-cgroup.h blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation 2012-06-26 18:42:49 -04:00
blk-core.c blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation 2012-06-26 18:42:49 -04:00
blk-exec.c block: add missing blk_queue_dead() checks 2011-12-14 00:33:37 +01:00
blk-flush.c blk-flush: move the queue kick into 2011-10-24 16:24:31 +02:00
blk-integrity.c block: add export.h to files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE macros 2011-10-31 19:31:12 -04:00
blk-ioc.c block: uninitialized ioc->nr_tasks triggers WARN_ON 2012-08-01 12:17:27 +02:00
blk-iopoll.c tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
blk-lib.c block: fix patch import error in max_discard_sectors check 2011-07-23 20:34:59 +02:00
blk-map.c block: re-use existing 'reading' variable instead of checking direction again 2011-12-21 15:27:24 +01:00
blk-merge.c block: separate out blk_rq_merge_ok() and blk_try_merge() from elevator functions 2012-02-08 09:19:38 +01:00
blk-settings.c block: do not artificially constrain max_sectors for stacking drivers 2012-08-01 10:44:28 +02:00
blk-softirq.c sched, block: Unify cache detection 2012-01-27 13:28:48 +01:00
blk-sysfs.c blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation 2012-06-26 18:42:49 -04:00
blk-tag.c block: fix blk_queue_end_tag() 2011-12-29 09:16:28 +01:00
blk-throttle.c block: allocate io_context upfront 2012-06-25 11:53:50 +02:00
blk-timeout.c block: Drop dead function blk_abort_queue() 2012-06-15 08:46:23 +02:00
blk.h block: prepare for multiple request_lists 2012-06-25 11:53:52 +02:00
bsg-lib.c block: drop custom queue draining used by scsi_transport_{iscsi|fc} 2012-06-25 11:53:48 +02:00
bsg.c bsg: fix sysfs link remove warning 2012-02-08 20:02:03 +01:00
cfq-iosched.c block: blkcg_policy_cfq shouldn't be used if !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED 2012-06-04 10:02:29 +02:00
compat_ioctl.c block: Add BLKROTATIONAL ioctl 2012-01-11 16:29:31 +01:00
deadline-iosched.c elevator: make elevator_init_fn() return 0/-errno 2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
elevator.c blkcg: implement per-queue policy activation 2012-04-20 10:06:06 +02:00
genhd.c block: fix buffer overflow when printing partition UUIDs 2012-05-15 08:22:04 +02:00
ioctl.c Merge branch 'for-3.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2012-01-15 12:24:45 -08:00
Kconfig move fs/partitions to block/ 2012-01-03 22:54:06 -05:00
Kconfig.iosched blkcg: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool 2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
Makefile separate partition format handling from generic code 2012-01-03 22:54:06 -05:00
noop-iosched.c elevator: make elevator_init_fn() return 0/-errno 2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
partition-generic.c block: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sd_revalidate_disk 2012-03-02 10:38:33 +01:00
scsi_ioctl.c scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition 2012-06-15 12:52:46 +02:00