Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen-blkfront: fix kernel panic with blkfront_remove()

From: Manjunath Patil
Date: Fri Nov 09 2018 - 14:09:16 EST


oops! sorry for not noticing this.

-Manjunath

On 11/8/2018 10:16 PM, Juergen Gross wrote:
On 09/11/2018 02:10, Manjunath Patil wrote:
When we try to detach the device, blkfront_remove() tries to access
blkfront_info leading to kernel panic.

Typical call stack involving panic -
#10 page_fault at ffffffff816f25df
[exception RIP: blkif_free+46]
#11 blkfront_remove at ffffffffa004de47 [xen_blkfront]
#12 xenbus_dev_remove at ffffffff813faa4c
#13 __device_release_driver at ffffffff814769aa
#14 device_release_driver at ffffffff81476a63
#15 bus_remove_device at ffffffff814762eb
#16 device_del at ffffffff81472684
#17 device_unregister at ffffffff814727e2
#18 xenbus_dev_changed at ffffffff813fa89f
#19 frontend_changed at ffffffff813fca19
#20 xenwatch_thread at ffffffff813f88f9
#21 kthread at ffffffff810a486b
#22 ret_from_fork at ffffffff816ed2a8

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Manjunath Patil <manjunath.b.patil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Commit f92898e7f32e3 already added that.


Juergen