On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 10:51:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Dave Jones <da...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > Managed to trigger this one from a different path.. > > > > kernel BUG at fs/namei.c:1439! > > Call Trace: > > [<ffffffff811c973e>] path_lookupat+0x71e/0x740 > > [<ffffffff811c9794>] filename_lookup+0x34/0xc0 > > [<ffffffff811cc58e>] user_path_at_empty+0x8e/0x110 > > [<ffffffff811cc621>] user_path_at+0x11/0x20 > > [<ffffffff811e4347>] sys_lgetxattr+0x37/0xa0 > > [<ffffffff816d11c2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > > > > What can I dump here that might give us more clues ? > > I think we should do the same thing and print out dentry names to give > us clues about where in /proc the problem happens. > > And it doesn't really have to be proc - because of the symlinks in > /proc, we could easily get to /sys through processes like udev etc.. > > So how about just replaving that BUG_ON() with a > > if (WARN_ON(nd->inode != parent->d_inode)) { > printk("%s -> %s (%s)\n", parent->d_name.name, > path->dentry->d_name.name, nd->last.name); > return -EINVAL; > } > > or something like that.
Ugh, something in there is NULL.. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [< (null)>] (null) PGD 10883f067 PUD 10883e067 PMD 0 Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: decnet ipx p8023 p8022 af_rxrpc appletalk psnap can rose af_key ax25 caif_socket caif crc_ccitt nfc atm llc2 phonet llc x25 lockd sunrpc ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables btusb bluetooth snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_pcm usb_debug edac_core microcode serio_raw pcspkr rfkill snd_page_alloc snd_timer snd r8169 soundcore mii vhost_net tun macvtap macvlan kvm_amd kvm radeon backlight drm_kms_helper ttm CPU 2 Pid: 942, comm: trinity-child2 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1+ #79 Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA78GM-S2H/GA-MA78GM-S2H RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>] [< (null)>] (null) RSP: 0018:ffff88010885ddc0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffffffff8181f540 RBX: ffff88010b3eb090 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000600 RSI: ffff88010b3eb090 RDI: ffff88010b359be8 RBP: ffff88010885dde8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88010b3e9720 R13: ffff88010885df38 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000000006a59949a FS: 00007feff7939740(0000) GS:ffff88012aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000108840000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process trinity-child2 (pid: 942, threadinfo ffff88010885c000, task ffff88011939a490) Stack: ffffffff811c62fd ffff88010b3e9720 ffff88010885df38 0000000000000000 0000000000000600 ffff88010885de18 ffffffff811c6518 ffff88010885de28 0100000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88010885de28 Call Trace: [<ffffffff811c62fd>] ? lookup_real+0x1d/0x60 [<ffffffff811c6518>] __lookup_hash+0x38/0x50 [<ffffffff811c6549>] lookup_hash+0x19/0x20 [<ffffffff811c9983>] kern_path_create+0x93/0x170 [<ffffffff811c7e36>] ? getname_flags.part.33+0x86/0x150 [<ffffffff811c9aaa>] user_path_create+0x4a/0x70 [<ffffffff811cc87c>] sys_mknodat+0xac/0x1d0 [<ffffffff816d1242>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: Bad RIP value. RIP [< (null)>] (null) RSP <ffff88010885ddc0> CR2: 0000000000000000 I'll turn off DEBUG_PAGEALLOC again, so I can get the RIP and figure out which deref it is. Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/