Re: 2.6.20.3: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:597 try#2

[Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>]

Mike Christie wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:49 -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
>>>> I can't even say if the tapes are written correctly as I can't read them
>>>> (one does not reboot production machines back to 2.4.x just to try to
>>>> read a backup tape - I don't have 2.6.x older than 2.6.20 on these
>>>> machines).
>>> Could you try this patch
>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=116464965414878&w=2
>>> I thought st was modified to not send offsets in the last elements but
>>> it looks like it wasn't.
>> Actually, there are two patches in the email referred to.  If the
>> analysis that we're passing NULL to mempool_free is correct, it should
>> be the second one that fixes the problem (the one that checks
>> bio->bi_io_vec before freeing it).  Which would mean we have a
>> nr_vecs==0 bio generated by the tar somehow.
>>
> 
> I think we might only need the first patch if the problem is similar to
> what the lsi guys were seeing. I thought the problem is that we are not
> estimating how large the transfer is correctly because we do not take
> into account offsets at the end. This results in nr_vecs being zero when
> it should be a valid value. I thought Kai's patch:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7919
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9abe16c670bd3d4ab5519257514f9f291383d104
> fixed the problem on st's side, but I guess not so you are probably right.
> 
> Here is a patch that dumps the sgl we are getting from st so we can see
> for sure what we are getting and can decide if we need the first patch,
> second patch or both.
> 

Here's the patch output:

sg length 6 offset 0
sg length 12 offset 0
sg length 4096 offset 0
sg length 4096 offset 0
sg length 2048 offset 0

Please note (as replied in the other mail) that the bugzilla patch
solves the problem.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> index 5f95570..81005aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
> @@ -306,6 +306,10 @@ static int scsi_req_map_sg(struct reques
>  	struct bio *bio = NULL;
>  	int i, err, nr_vecs = 0;
>  
> +	for (i = 0; i < nsegs; i++)
> +		printk(KERN_INFO "sg length %u offset %u\n", sgl[i].length,
> +			sgl[i].offset);
> +
>  	for (i = 0; i < nsegs; i++) {
>  		page = sgl[i].page;
>  		off = sgl[i].offset;


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