[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:17:16 PDT, Andrew Morton said: > >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc7/2.6.23-rc7-mm1/ > > It lived fast, it died young, it didn't leave a pretty corpse... > > Something in the startup scripts did a 'touch', and ker-blam. > > [ 15.668000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at > 0000000000000252 RIP: > [ 15.668000] [<ffffffff802a1dd1>] __mnt_is_readonly+0x9/0x1e > [ 15.668000] PGD 52be067 PUD 5645067 PMD 0 > [ 15.668000] Oops: 0000 [1] PREEMPT SMP > [ 15.668000] last sysfs file: /block/dm-13/dev > [ 15.668000] CPU 0 > [ 15.668000] Modules linked in: rtc > [ 15.668000] Pid: 528, comm: touch Not tainted 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 #1 > [ 15.668000] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802a1dd1>] [<ffffffff802a1dd1>] > __mnt_is_readonly+0x9/0x1e > [ 15.668000] RSP: 0018:ffff8100045fddd8 EFLAGS: 00010202 > [ 15.668000] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff810002c10680 RCX: > 0000000000000001 > [ 15.668000] RDX: ffff810082504000 RSI: ffff810005243168 RDI: > 0000000000000202 > [ 15.668000] RBP: ffff8100045fddd8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: > 0000000000000002 > [ 15.668000] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff8100045fde68 R12: > 0000000000000202 > [ 15.668000] R13: 00000000ffffffe2 R14: ffff8100052c1d80 R15: > ffff8100039aa8a0 > [ 15.668000] FS: 00007f9527f596f0(0000) GS:ffffffff806b6000(0000) > knlGS:0000000000000000 > [ 15.668000] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b > [ 15.668000] CR2: 0000000000000252 CR3: 00000000052cb000 CR4: > 00000000000006e0 > [ 15.668000] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: > 0000000000000000 > [ 15.668000] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: > 0000000000000400 > [ 15.668000] Process touch (pid: 528, threadinfo ffff8100045fc000, task > ffff8100047517e0) > [ 15.668000] last branch before last exception/interrupt > [ 15.668000] from [<ffffffff802a4d1b>] mnt_want_write+0x44/0xb5 > [ 15.668000] to [<ffffffff802a1dc8>] __mnt_is_readonly+0x0/0x1e > [ 15.668000] Stack: ffff8100045fde08 ffffffff802a4d20 ffff8100045fddf8 > 0000000000000000 > [ 15.668000] 00000000fffffff7 ffff810005243140 ffff8100045fdf28 > ffffffff802ad288 > [ 15.668000] ffff8100045fde58 0000000000000202 ffff8100045fde58 > ffffffff8035437b > [ 15.668000] Call Trace: > [ 15.668000] [<ffffffff802a4d20>] mnt_want_write+0x49/0xb5 > [ 15.668000] [<ffffffff802ad288>] do_utimes+0xd0/0x220 > [ 15.668000] [<ffffffff8035437b>] __up_read+0x7a/0x83 > [ 15.668000] [<ffffffff8024b1af>] up_read+0x9/0xb > [ 15.668000] [<ffffffff8051977c>] do_page_fault+0x421/0x7d0 > [ 15.668000] [<ffffffff8028b370>] do_filp_open+0x36/0x46 > [ 15.668000] [<ffffffff802ad519>] sys_utimensat+0x8b/0xa5 > [ 15.668000] [<ffffffff80517a4d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 > [ 15.668000] [<ffffffff8020c10e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 > [ 15.668000] > [ 15.668000] > [ 15.668000] Code: f6 47 50 40 75 0d 48 8b 47 28 8a 40 58 83 e0 01 0f b6 c0 > c9 > [ 15.668000] RIP [<ffffffff802a1dd1>] __mnt_is_readonly+0x9/0x1e > [ 15.668000] RSP <ffff8100045fddd8> > [ 15.668000] CR2: 0000000000000252 >
CC'ing Dave, he might be interested in looking into this. Do you know which file was touched. I suspect either mnt or mnt_sb is NULL in __mnt_is_readonly(). mnt is extracted from the nameidata structure. It's interesting to see utimenstat in the stack, I suspect that the filename was probably NULL and dfd was something other than AT_FDCWD (Just a wild guess). I'll try to reproduce your problem. -- Warm Regards, Balbir Singh Linux Technology Center IBM, ISTL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/