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fix slab corruption during ipr probe

PATCH In review Nathan Lynch 2 participants 2 messages Jun 2, 2005 – Jun 3, 2005 SCSI

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PATCH 1/1 fix slab corruption during ipr probe

Hi-

With CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y I see slab corruption messages during boot on pSeries machines with IPR adapters with any 2.6.12-rc kernel.

The change which seems to have introduced the problem is "SCSI: revamp target scanning routines" and may be found at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bk-commits-head&m=111093946426333&w=2

In order to revert that in a 2.6.12-rc1 tree, I had to revert "target code updates to support scanned targets" first:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bk-commits-head&m=111094132524649&w=2

With both patches reverted, the corruption messages go away.

ipr: IBM Power RAID SCSI Device Driver version: 2.0.13 (February 21, 2005)
ipr 0001:d0:01.0: Found IOA with IRQ: 167
ipr 0001:d0:01.0: Starting IOA initialization sequence. ipr 0001:d0:01.0: Adapter firmware version: 020A005C
ipr 0001:d0:01.0: IOA initialized.
scsi0 : IBM 570B Storage Adapter

  Vendor: IBM       Model: VSBPD4E1  U4SCSI  Rev: 4770
  Type:   Enclosure                          ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  Vendor: IBM   H0  Model: HUS103036FL3800   Rev: RPQF
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 04
  Vendor: IBM   H0  Model: HUS103036FL3800   Rev: RPQF
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 04
  Vendor: IBM   H0  Model: HUS103036FL3800   Rev: RPQF
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 04
  Vendor: IBM   H0  Model: HUS103036FL3800   Rev: RPQF
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 04
  Vendor: IBM       Model: VSBPD4E1  U4SCSI  Rev: 4770
  Type:   Enclosure                          ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Slab corruption: start=c0000001e8de5268, len=512
Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
Last user: [<c00000000029c3a0>](.scsi_target_dev_release+0x28/0x50) 080: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a Prev obj: start=c0000001e8de5050, len=512
Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
Last user: [<0000000000000000>](0x0)
000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b Next obj: start=c0000001e8de5480, len=512
Redzone: 0x170fc2a5/0x170fc2a5.
Last user: [<c000000000228d7c>](.as_init_queue+0x5c/0x228) 000: c0 00 00 01 e8 83 26 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 01 e8 de 54 98 Slab corruption: start=c0000001e8de5268, len=512
Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
Last user: [<c00000000029c3a0>](.scsi_target_dev_release+0x28/0x50) 080: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a Prev obj: start=c0000001e8de5050, len=512
Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
Last user: [<0000000000000000>](0x0)
000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b Next obj: start=c0000001e8de5480, len=512
Redzone: 0x170fc2a5/0x170fc2a5.
Last user: [<c000000000228d7c>](.as_init_queue+0x5c/0x228) 000: c0 00 00 01 e8 83 26 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 01 e8 de 54 98
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I did some digging and the problem seems to be a refcounting issue in __scsi_add_device. The target gets freed in scsi_target_reap, and then __scsi_add_device tries to do another device_put on it. I'm not sure whether other users of __scsi_add_device are affected by this.

This patch works for me (tm); is it correct?

drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c +1 -0
Index: linux-2.6.12-rc5/drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
===================================================================
@@ -1197,6 +1197,7 @@ struct scsi_device *__scsi_add_device(st
 	if (!starget)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
+	get_device(&starget->dev);
 	down(&shost->scan_mutex);
 	res = scsi_probe_and_add_lun(starget, lun, NULL, &sdev, 1, hostdata);
 	if (res != SCSI_SCAN_LUN_PRESENT)
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Quoted 3 lines · Nathan Lynch

This patch works for me (tm); is it correct?

Yes, it is.

Apparently every other caller except IPR uses the standard scsi_scan_target() interface, which does have this extra get_device(), I can't think how it got left off the __scsi_add_device path ... well, except that it wouldn't show up during testing.

I suppose someone should look at converting ipr to scsi_scan_target() and we can eliminate this API (the only difference is that scsi_add_device returns the actual device, but ipr never uses this...)

In the meantime, I'll put this in rc fixes.

Thanks,

James