[Bug report] BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x00000069, filemap_release_folio+0x88/0xb0

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 09:17:20AM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> Hi mm and ppc list,
> 
> Recently I started to hit a kernel panic [2] rarely on *ppc64le* with *1k
> blocksize* ext4. It's not easy to reproduce, but still has chance to trigger
> by loop running generic/048 on ppc64le (not sure all kind of ppc64le can
> reproduce it).
> 
> Although I've reported a bug to ext4 [1] (more details refer to [1]), but I only
> hit it on ppc64le until now, and I'm not sure if it's an ext4 related bug, more
> likes folio related issue, so I cc mm and ppc mail list, hope to get more
> reviewing.

Argh.  This is the wrong way to do it.  Please stop using bugzilla.
Now there's discussion in two places and there's nowhere to see all
of it.

> [ 4681.230907] BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0x00000069 
> [ 4681.230922] Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000068ee0c 
> [ 4681.230929] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] 
> [ 4681.230934] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries 
> [ 4681.230991] CPU: 0 PID: 82 Comm: kswapd0 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.0.0-rc6+ #1 
> [ 4681.230999] NIP:  c00000000068ee0c LR: c00000000068f2b8 CTR: 0000000000000000 
> [ 4681.238525] REGS: c000000006c0b560 TRAP: 0380   Not tainted  (6.0.0-rc6+) 
> [ 4681.238532] MSR:  800000000280b033 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 24028242  XER: 00000000 
> [ 4681.238556] CFAR: c00000000068edf4 IRQMASK: 0  
> [ 4681.238556] GPR00: c00000000068f2b8 c000000006c0b800 c000000002cf1700 c00c00000042f1c0  
> [ 4681.238556] GPR04: c000000006c0b860 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 0000000000000000  
> [ 4681.238556] GPR08: c000000002d404b0 0000000000000000 c00c00000042f1c0 0000000000000000  
> [ 4681.238556] GPR12: c0000000001cf080 c000000005100000 c000000000194298 c0000001fff9c480  
> [ 4681.238556] GPR16: c000000048cdb850 0000000000000007 0000000000000000 0000000000000000  
> [ 4681.238556] GPR20: 0000000000000001 c000000006c0b8f8 c00000000146b9d8 5deadbeef0000100  
> [ 4681.238556] GPR24: 5deadbeef0000122 c000000048cdb800 c000000006c0bc00 c000000006c0b8e8  
> [ 4681.238556] GPR28: c000000006c0b860 c00c00000042f1c0 0000000000000009 0000000000000009  
> [ 4681.238634] NIP [c00000000068ee0c] drop_buffers.constprop.0+0x4c/0x1c0 
> [ 4681.238643] LR [c00000000068f2b8] try_to_free_buffers+0x128/0x150 
> [ 4681.238650] Call Trace: 
> [ 4681.238654] [c000000006c0b800] [c000000006c0b880] 0xc000000006c0b880 (unreliable) 
> [ 4681.238663] [c000000006c0b840] [c000000006c0bc00] 0xc000000006c0bc00 
> [ 4681.238670] [c000000006c0b890] [c000000000498708] filemap_release_folio+0x88/0xb0 
> [ 4681.238679] [c000000006c0b8b0] [c0000000004c51c0] shrink_active_list+0x490/0x750 
> [ 4681.238688] [c000000006c0b9b0] [c0000000004c9f88] shrink_lruvec+0x3f8/0x430 
> [ 4681.238697] [c000000006c0baa0] [c0000000004ca1f4] shrink_node_memcgs+0x234/0x290 
> [ 4681.238704] [c000000006c0bb10] [c0000000004ca3c4] shrink_node+0x174/0x6b0 
> [ 4681.238711] [c000000006c0bbc0] [c0000000004cacf0] balance_pgdat+0x3f0/0x970 
> [ 4681.238718] [c000000006c0bd20] [c0000000004cb440] kswapd+0x1d0/0x450 
> [ 4681.238726] [c000000006c0bdc0] [c0000000001943d8] kthread+0x148/0x150 
> [ 4681.238735] [c000000006c0be10] [c00000000000cbe4] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 
> [ 4681.238745] Instruction dump: 
> [ 4681.238749] fbc1fff0 f821ffc1 7c7d1b78 7c9c2378 ebc30028 7fdff378 48000018 60000000  
> [ 4681.238765] 60000000 ebff0008 7c3ef840 41820048 <815f0060> e93f0000 5529077c 7d295378  

Running that through scripts/decodecode (with some minor hacks .. how
do PPC people do this properly?) I get:

   0:	fb c1 ff f0 	std     r30,-16(r1)
   4:	f8 21 ff c1 	stdu    r1,-64(r1)
   8:	7c 7d 1b 78 	mr      r29,r3
   c:	7c 9c 23 78 	mr      r28,r4
  10:	eb c3 00 28 	ld      r30,40(r3)
  14:	7f df f3 78 	mr      r31,r30
  18:	48 00 00 18 	b       0x30
  1c:	60 00 00 00 	nop
  20:	60 00 00 00 	nop
  24:	eb ff 00 08 	ld      r31,8(r31)
  28:	7c 3e f8 40 	cmpld   r30,r31
  2c:	41 82 00 48 	beq     0x74
  30:*	81 5f 00 60 	lwz     r10,96(r31)		<-- trapping instruction
  34:	e9 3f 00 00 	ld      r9,0(r31)
  38:	55 29 07 7c 	rlwinm  r9,r9,0,29,30
  3c:	7d 29 53 78 	or      r9,r9,r10

That would seem to track; 96 is 0x60 and r31 contains 0x00..09, giving
us an effective address of 0x69.

It would be nice to know what source line that corresponds to.  Could
you use scripts/faddr2line to turn drop_buffers.constprop.0+0x4c/0x1c0
into a line number?  I can't because it needs the vmlinux you generated.