2.6.39-rc1 nouveau(?) regression (bisected)

[Marcin Slusarz]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:27:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Marcin Slusarz
> <marcin.slusarz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It's some nasty corruption:
> 
> Looks like something wrote 0xffffffff to free'd memory.
> 
> Enabling DEBUG_PAGEALLOC *might* show where it happens.
> 
> >
> > [ ? ?6.523867] 
> > =============================================================================
> > [ ? ?6.523916] BUG sysfs_dir_cache: Poison overwritten
> > [ ? ?6.523949] 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > [ ? ?6.523950]
> > [ ? ?6.524016] INFO: 0xffff8801bb47df4c-0xffff8801bb47df4f. First byte 0xff 
> > instead of 0x6b
> > [ ? ?6.524061] INFO: Slab 0xffffea00060f7b58 objects=22 used=21 
> > fp=0xffff8801bb47df18 flags=0x80000000000000c1
> > [ ? ?6.524110] INFO: Object 0xffff8801bb47df18 @offset=3864 fp=0x ? ? ? ? 
> > ?(null)
> > [ ? ?6.524111]
> > [ ? ?6.524170] Bytes b4 0xffff8801bb47df08: ?00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 
> > 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ........ZZZZZZZZ
> > [ ? ?6.524516] ? Object 0xffff8801bb47df18: ?6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 
> > 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
> > [ ? ?6.524862] ? Object 0xffff8801bb47df28: ?6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 
> > 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
> > [ ? ?6.525208] ? Object 0xffff8801bb47df38: ?6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 
> > 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
> > [ ? ?6.525556] ? Object 0xffff8801bb47df48: ?6b 6b 6b 6b ff ff ff ff 6b 6b 
> > 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkk<FF><FF><FF><FF>kkkkkkkk
> 
> So here the 0xffffffff is pretty obvious.
> 
> > and in another boot:
> >
> > [ ? ?6.704786] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 
> > ffffffffbc70b058
> 
> Here it is less obvious, but it was _probably_ a regular kernel
> pointer of the type 0xffff8801bc70b058 before the high bits were
> overwritten by a 0xffffffff.
> 
> So then sysfs_refresh_inode() follows that pointer, and crashes.
> 
> Just a guess, obviously, but it looks rather likely.

Thanks. It helped a bit.
I'll send two patches in response to this message, one of which fixes this bug.

Marcin