Created attachment 122621 [details] oops-msg and objdump of relevant code when doing a find /proc -type f -exec sha512sum {} \; x-hundred times parallel, this can lead in a BUG within d_path. the tainting is due to a previous msh while booting, but it's a fresh kernel: [ 6.270947] mtrr: your BIOS has configured an incorrect mask, fixing it. as I can see in the oops and the objdump, the problems occurs in fs/dcache.c:d_path(), testing for existant of a function and then calling it: if (path->dentry->d_op && path->dentry->d_op->d_dname) return path->dentry->d_op->d_dname(path->dentry, buf, buflen); looking at fs/proc/base.c:proc_pid_readlink() "path" is initialized in one of the getlink-functions within proc.c: proc_cwd_link() or proc_root_link() in both functions first the task-structure is get by get_roc_task() and if 's not NULL, then locked and then the wanted fs_struct is acquired/locked. now I don't have enough experience, but maybe beetween getting the task-struct and locking it, the task may be already invalidated because it exited, so the lock should be done in get_proc_task() or at least it should be checked after locking, if the task is still alive....??? even this problem shouldn't occure very often, because the find/shasum-calls are not very useful, I've found this bug due to a complete freeze of another computer running X and many tasks with a similar (but really tainted) kernel, but maybe these problems might be connected, because the hardware, where these tests are now done, are booted to console only with nearly nothing else running, so the environment/complexity of both are not comparable.
another test give the result, that it doesn't seem to help, to check the task after locking it. the only possibility I found is to look at PF_EXITING in taskflags, which is set in exit_signals before exit_fs in do_exit. starting the find/shasum leads after similar time in the BUG-msg, without showing the temporarily added printk if PF_EXITING is set. Ok, from now I've no further idea, why the path is filled with bad data, especially because I didn't find any check for task-locks in do_exit.
please, attach .config and "vmlinux" file to bug report
most importantly vmlinux i doubt d_path() is the culprit
Please run memtest on the box. If there was 0000 => 1000 bitflip, then code would oops in your way. But if there wasn't, code would correctly skip NULL ->d_dname as it should.
but then again 0x1000 == PAGE_SIZE which is quite a coincidence.
well, because the error is exactly reproducable with different kernels and after various reboots in the same way with the same location, I don't think, that it's caused by memory-failures, but nevertheless I tested the whole mem twice: no result. to prove it, I change the testboard to another one with other memory: failure is reproducable as before. so the possibility, that it's caused by hardware-errors is really really small. I'll attach the requested files.
Created attachment 126261 [details] kernel-file, where the error oocures kernel-file as requested, where the error occures
Created attachment 126271 [details] configuration for attached kernel-file config-file as requested
thanks for ruling hardware out of equation bzImage file you've provided was stripped of symbolic information. I have hard time locating proc_pid_readlink(), though I've found d_path(). it seems kernel was relocated a bit could you please do the following: compile clean kernel from scratch reproduce post an oops from that kernel post "vmlinux" file which is left in source tree (not bzImage in /boot) form that kernel ------ if you still have full kernel build tree from the oops you've attached post "vmlinux" Alexey
Another test: you're doing find /proc -type f -exec sha512sum {} \; "sha512sum" is equivalent to slow "cat" there is "pagemap" file for every process, reading it could take very long time on x86_64. can you confirm that the following also reproduces the bug? find /proc -type f ! -name 'pagemap' -exec /bin/cat {} \;
first: a big sorry, that I've given the bzImage instead of the vmlinux - I didn't thought about the concrete needs for the request. I'll attach the vmlinux. additionally I've done soem tests again because it seems that you've troubles to reproduce the problem and I recognize, that's not as easy, as I thought. Here I'm using a script for getiing complete filelists and even if I change that script only a bit, so that it writes less gearbage to console, it seems to be difficult to reproduce. So I'll attach that script, too. I started it in /proc as "for (( i=0; i<2000; i++)) ;do ( ~/ooops \! -name pagemap & ); done" the first tests were done on a athlon BE2400 dual-core with 16MB and a phenom X4-910e quad-core with 8, now with 16MB. if necessary, I can try it on newer machines (which are currently in use). most of the time it takes round about 300-400 seconds from start of the loop until the first occurence of a bug-msg. the excluding of pagemap doesn't seem to make a difference. but again: sorry I hadn't put the script with my first msg - I didn't thought, that it may be important.
Created attachment 126691 [details] the script for listing the entries
Created attachment 126701 [details] the vmlinux-file
just have done another test with kernel 3.10.30: the error comes here, too. (nearly 300 seconds after starting the loop, similar to the previous tests)
reproduced locally once
*** Bug 70971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> *** Bug 70971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** this seems wrong
Steps to reproduce! CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE=y fd = open(...) while(1) { mmap(, fd); munmap(fd,); } ls -la /proc/$PID/map_files
it will trigger immediately and fix is obvious
commit 70335abb2689c8cd5df91bf2d95a65649addf50b fs/proc/base.c: fix GPF in /proc/$PID/map_files
(In reply to Alexey Dobriyan from comment #20) > commit 70335abb2689c8cd5df91bf2d95a65649addf50b > fs/proc/base.c: fix GPF in /proc/$PID/map_files just applied this patch manually to a 3.12.14-kernel and it seems to work. (no oops within 15min of running the looped test-script) good work - many thanks.