[systemd-devel] BTRFS bug with parallel mounts?

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:02:51PM -0200, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> <barbieri at profusion.mobi> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, November 10, 2010, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> > <barbieri at profusion.mobi> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> First, I'm not typing much or send the kernel oops since I'm at a
> >> phone without access to my lap ATM
> >>
> >> So yesterday I got my new laptop with quad core i7 and SSD. gentoo's
> >> openrc works nice, but systemd triggers a nasty kernel oops with btrfs
> >>
> >> The oops is while mounting my /home it get a null pointer at
> >> btrfs_test_super. After the backtrace (which I had will send later) I
> >> get a "btrfs detected SSD devices, enabling SSD mode"
> >>
> >> So really looks like a race. Ideas?
> >>
> >> That also bring us to the safety question: should we provide a way to
> >> force /etc/fstab entries to be mounted serially and forcefully? This
> >> would be helpful for buggy FS while you can't get the fix (or to
> >> install and apply the fix -- as I'm using openrc but in future I'll
> >> not)
> >>
> >
> > Worths mentioning that all my fs are btrfs: /, /home and /var
> 
> ----8<--------------------
> 
> Part of the log (sorry, I had no way but to type it all):
> 
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000128
> IP: [<ffffffff811329fb>] btrfs_test_super+0xb/0x30
> PGD: 26b5b1067 PUD 26a465067 PMD 0
> last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/bdi/btrfs-2/uevent
> CPU 0
> Modules linked in: nvidia(P) lib80211_crypt_tkip wl(P)
> Pid: 434, comm: mount Tainted: P     2.6.36 #3 Mac-F22586C8/MacBookPro6,2
> RIP: ... btrfs_test_super+0xb/0x30

Sounds like a btrfs issue, have you contacted those developers?

Also, you really are going to have to be able to reproduce this without
the closed source kernel modules linked in (broadcom and nvidia) for
anyone to even be able to help you out.

good luck,

greg k-h