Re: Thread stuck in aioprn

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:19:53AM +0800, David Xu wrote:
> On Thursday 05 October 2006 04:37, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > When running stress2 I got an unkillable process stuck in the aioprn
> > state:
> >
> > #0  sched_switch (td=0xc5652bd0, newtd=0xc4916a20, flags=1) at atomic.h:265
> > #1  0xc0549b96 in mi_switch (flags=1, newtd=0x0) at
> > ../../../kern/kern_synch.c:425 #2  0xc056baa6 in sleepq_switch (wchan=0x0)
> > at ../../../kern/subr_sleepqueue.c:450 #3  0xc056bc9b in sleepq_timedwait
> > (wchan=0xc5668c80) at ../../../kern/subr_sleepqueue.c:567 #4  0xc054959e in
> > msleep (ident=0xc5668c80, mtx=0xc5c6ee0c, priority=76, wmesg=0xc0763914
> > "aioprn", timo=100) at ../../../kern/kern_synch.c:207
> > #5  0xc05a0597 in aio_proc_rundown (arg=0x0, p=0xc5668b04) at
> > ../../../kern/vfs_aio.c:699 #6  0xc0524769 in exit1 (td=0xc5652bd0, rv=9)
> > at ../../../kern/kern_exit.c:237 #7  0xc0545eab in sigexit (td=0xc5652bd0,
> > sig=9) at ../../../kern/kern_sig.c:2883 #8  0xc0546c3b in postsig (sig=9)
> > at ../../../kern/kern_sig.c:2765 #9  0xc056e503 in ast (framep=0xed16dd38)
> > at ../../../kern/subr_trap.c:270 #10 0xc06ff61d in doreti_ast () at
> > ../../../i386/i386/exception.s:284
> >
> > This was from the 'random syscall' test, so chances are there is some
> > insufficient error handling of invalid data here.
> >
> > Kris
> 
> Are you using aio with non-disk file ? I know it is not safe to use
> aio with socket, pipe, fifo, etcs, only disk file may be safe.

I guess I was unclear: the stress2 test calls random syscalls with
random arguments, so the error condition is probably from insufficient
sanity checking of the input in aio_read().

Kris