Re: 2.6.24-sha1: RIP [<ffffffff802596c8>] iov_iter_advance+0x38/0x70

From: Kevin Coffman
Date: Wed Feb 27 2008 - 12:42:21 EST


On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2008 09:01, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:47:11PM +0300, wrote:
>
> > > > Are you reproducing it simply by running the
> > > > ftest03 binary directly from the shell? How many times between oopses?
> > > > It is multi-process but no threads, so races should be minimal down
> > > > this path -- can you get an strace of the failing process?
> >
> > Speaking of multi-proceseness, changing MAXCHILD to 1, nchild to 1,
> > AFAICS, generates one child which oopses the very same way (in parallel
> > with generic LTP) But, lowering MAXIOVCNT to 8 generates no oops.
>
> Thanks, I was able to reproduce quite easily with these settings.
> I think I have the correct patch now (at least it isn't triggerable
> any more here).
>
> Thanks,
> Nick

Hi Nick,
With this patch, I'm getting "bad data" errors while running the
connectathon tests from a Solaris NFS client to my Linux server. (The
failing test writes a "big" file (1MB) and reads it back, verifying
the data read back is correct.) Let me know if I can provide more
details.

K.C.
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