[Bug 1730374] Re: NULL pointer dereference during writeback

2018-03-30 Thread Metta Crawler
I no longer am using the motherboard, CPU and RAM that this happened on. I am using 4.15.0-13-generic on 18.04 now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1730374 Title: NULL pointer

[Bug 1730374] Re: NULL pointer dereference during writeback

2018-02-02 Thread Metta Crawler
** Tags added: kernel-bug -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1730374 Title: NULL pointer dereference during writeback To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1730374] Re: NULL pointer dereference during writeback

2018-02-02 Thread Metta Crawler
** Description changed: + This could be part of CVE-2016-3070 + Happened during dd of 40GB LV: $ sudo dd if=/dev/vg0/gentoo of=/dev/vg1/gentoo I also used SIGUSR1 on the dd to monitor it occasionally. There was other activity at the time as well. It appears that an attempt

[Bug 1730374] Re: NULL pointer dereference during writeback

2017-12-29 Thread Metta Crawler
It happened again. $ uname -r 4.14.9-041409-generic Dec 29 14:32:14 lakshmi kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) Dec 29 14:32:14 lakshmi kernel: IP: locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list+0x20/0x110 Dec 29 14:32:14 lakshmi kernel: PGD 0 P4D 0 Dec 29

[Bug 1730374] Re: NULL pointer dereference during writeback

2017-12-13 Thread Metta Crawler
It's likely that this was either fixed upstream or the root cause is from a patch that was put on the 4.13 kernels that the 4.14 kernels don't have. Nov 05 22:15:30 lakshmi kernel: Linux version 4.13.0-16-generic (buildd@lcy01-02) (gcc version 7.2.0 (Ubuntu 7.2.0-8ubuntu2)) #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed

[Bug 1730374] Re: NULL pointer dereference during writeback

2017-11-28 Thread Metta Crawler
Installation of 4.14.2 https://gist.github.com/mettacrawler/7d60c8f51a19b506ea1cb575c2ed4032 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1730374 Title: NULL pointer dereference during writeback

[Bug 1730374] Re: NULL pointer dereference during writeback

2017-11-28 Thread Metta Crawler
I was unable to reproduce this on 4.13 until Nov 23 when it happened again. This time the logs show that I was handling PDF files via Nautilus which doesn't imply as much disk I/O as the previous 40G dd did. A quote from: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9614361/ {{ I am able to reproduce the

[Bug 1730374] Re: NULL pointer dereference during writeback

2017-11-10 Thread Metta Crawler
Eventually I'll have time to test the upstream kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1730374 Title: NULL pointer dereference during writeback To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 1730374] Re: NULL pointer dereference during writeback

2017-11-10 Thread Metta Crawler
I'd love to have time to work on this kernel bug but I have fires all over the place with 17.10. I have a dual-boot setup between 16.04 and 17.10. The 17.10 took over nine minutes to boot originally. After finding out about Debian_bug_867368 I got it to boot in over three minutes. It still gets

[Bug 1730374] Re: NULL pointer dereference during writeback

2017-11-06 Thread Joseph Salisbury
It doesn't appear the patch mentioned ever landed in mainline. To see if this was fixed another way, would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v4.14 kernel[0]. If this bug is fixed in the