kernel BUG at drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1096!

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 12:06 +0100, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> On 18/11/2015 10:18, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I'm intermittently seeing the following oops on at least one powerpc box.
> > 
> > The BUG_ON() is from:
> > 
> > static int scsi_init_sgtable(struct request *req, struct scsi_data_buffer *sdb)
> > {
> > 	...
> > 	count = blk_rq_map_sg(req->q, req, sdb->table.sgl);
> > 	BUG_ON(count > sdb->table.nents);
> > 
> > Looking at the dump it looks like count was 2, I can't work out what nents was.
> > 
> > The machine's just a fairly boring bare metal setup, with a single IPR adapter:
> > 
> > 0001:08:00.0 RAID bus controller: IBM PCI-E IPR SAS Adapter (ASIC) (rev 02)
> > 	Subsystem: IBM PCIe3 x8 SAS RAID Internal Adapter 6Gb (57D7)
> > 	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
> > 	Kernel driver in use: ipr
> > 
> > 
> > Anyone seen it before or have any ideas?
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I'm facing the same panic on my bare metal system.
> 
> Sounds to be raised by the latest update to 4.4-rc1

Yeah I think it's new since 4.3.

Do you see it regularly, or just every now and then?

cheers