Bug 1935

Summary: Oops at writeback_release during shutdown
Product: File System Reporter: Felipe Alfaro Solana (felipe_alfaro)
Component: ext2Assignee: Andrew Morton (akpm)
Status: REJECTED UNREPRODUCIBLE    
Severity: high CC: bunk
Priority: P2    
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.1-rc2 Subsystem:
Regression: --- Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: .config file used to build the kernel

Description Felipe Alfaro Solana 2004-01-22 05:47:10 UTC
Distribution:
Fedora Linux Core 1

Hardware Environment:
Packard Bell Chrom@
Pentium III Mobile 700Mhz
Intel 440BX motherboard
256MB RAM

Software Environment:
Fedora Linux Core 1
2.6.2-rc1

Problem Description:
I have seen the following oops while unmounting the root filesytem on system
shutdown. Previously, I had ran "prelink -av" and "sync". The root filesystem is
ext2 mounted with "noatime".

This is all I've been able to gather from the screen of my laptop:

CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c0169c58>]    Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010246
EIP is at iput+0x78/0x90
eax: c02a0900   ebx: cf95f4ec   ecx: c03f3f80   edx: cf95f4f4
esi: c13c1c00   edi: cf95f578   ebp: c03f2000   esp: c03f3e94
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process pdflush (pid: 1734, threadinfo=c03f2000 task=c6a48080)
Stack: c0170853 c13e7724 cf95f4ec c0170014 cf95f4ec c03f3f80 c13c1c78 c03f2000
       c13c1c70 c13e7724 003d44be c13c1c00 c03f2000 c03f3f80 c03f3ef8 c0170106
       c13c1c00 c03f3f80 0000001f c03f3f80 c03f3f00 c0139185 c03f3f80 c03f3ef8
Call Trace:
 [<c0170583>] writeback_release+0x13/0x2e
 [<c0170014>] sync_sb_inodes+0x1c4/0x260
 [<c0170106>] writeback_inodes+0x56/0xb0
 [<c0139185>] background_writeout+0x85/0xd0
 [<c013986a>] __pdflush+0xda/0x1e0
 [<c0139970>] pdflush+0x0/0x20
 [<c013997f>] pdflush+0x0/0x20
 [<c0139100>] background_timeout+0x0/0xd0
 [<c0106f20>] kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
 [<c0106f25>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10

Code: 0f 0b 42 04 57 c7 27 c0 eb 9f 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 8d bc 27

Please, see attached config file.

Steps to reproduce:
This problem is not easily reproducible.
Comment 1 Felipe Alfaro Solana 2004-01-22 05:47:50 UTC
Created attachment 1928 [details]
.config file used to build the kernel
Comment 2 Adrian Bunk 2005-07-04 18:59:30 UTC
Does this problem still happen with more recent kernels?
Comment 3 Felipe Alfaro Solana 2005-07-05 10:44:42 UTC
I haven't seen it anymore, so I'm closing this bug.
Thanks.