NFS: mount failure causes bad page state
While testing a kernel based upon
ecd744eec3aa8bbc949ec04ed3fbf7ecb2958a0e
(with wrong boot arguments), I got the following bad page state entry while
NFS was trying to mount it's rootfs:
IP-Config: Complete:
device=eth0, addr=192.168.1.101, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=255.255.255.255,
host=192.168.1.101, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
bootserver=192.168.1.100, rootserver=192.168.1.100, rootpath=
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.1.100
rpcbind: server 192.168.1.100 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server, using default
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.1.100
rpcbind: server 192.168.1.100 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Unable to get mountd port number from server, using default
mount: server 192.168.1.100 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Server returned error -5 while mounting /nfs/rootfs/
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
Bad page state in process 'swapper'
page:
c02b1260 flags:0x00000400 mapping:
00000000 mapcount:0 count:0
Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
Backtrace:
[<
c0023e34>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from [<
c0062570>] (bad_page+0x70/0xac)
[<
c0062500>] (bad_page+0x0/0xac) from [<
c0064914>] (free_hot_cold_page+0x80/0x178)
[<
c0064894>] (free_hot_cold_page+0x0/0x178) from [<
c0064a74>] (free_hot_page+0x14/0x18)
[<
c0064a60>] (free_hot_page+0x0/0x18) from [<
c0067078>] (put_page+0xf8/0x154)
[<
c0066f80>] (put_page+0x0/0x154) from [<
c007dbc8>] (kfree+0xc8/0xd0)
[<
c007db00>] (kfree+0x0/0xd0) from [<
c00cbb54>] (nfs_get_sb+0x230/0x710)
[<
c00cb924>] (nfs_get_sb+0x0/0x710) from [<
c0084334>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x58/0xac)[<
c00842dc>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x0/0xac) from [<
c00843c0>] (do_kern_mount+0x38/0xf4)
[<
c0084388>] (do_kern_mount+0x0/0xf4) from [<
c0099c7c>] (do_mount+0x1e8/0x614)
...
This seems to be caused by use of an uninitialised structure due to NULL
options being passed to nfs_validate_mount_data(). Ensure that the
parsed mount data is always initialised.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
(Trond: added fix for the same bug in nfs4_validate_mount_data()).
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>