Re: fs/coda oops bisected to (925b9cd1b8) "locking/rwsem: Make owner store task pointer of last owni

[Waiman Long]

On 04/02/2019 03:17 PM, Jan Harkes wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 03:13:47PM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 02:14:13PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>>> One possibility is that there is a previous reference to the memory
>>> currently occupied by the spinlock. If the memory location is previously
>>> part of a rwsem structure and someone is still using it, you may get
>>> memory corruption.
>> Ah, I hadn't even thought of that possibility. Good, it will open up
> First of all, I have to thank you for your original patch because
> otherwise I probably would never have discovered that something was
> seriously wrong. Your patch made the problem visible.
>
> I ended up changing 'owner' to '_RET_IP_' and dumping the value of the
> clobbered coda inode spinlock and surrounding memory and found that the
> 'culprit' is in ext4_filemap_fault and despite it being in ext4, it is
> still a Coda specific problem.

It is good news that you have found the bug. However, I don't have
sufficient expertise in the filesystem and mm areas to give you
recommendation of what to do next.

Cheers,
Longman