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SubjectRE: Oops (probably) unmounting /oldroot/firmware/efi/efivars.
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From: Ard Biesheuvel
> Sent: 24 November 2020 15:02
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 15:58, David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Ard Biesheuvel
> > > Sent: 24 November 2020 14:24
> > >
> > > On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 15:22, David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've just updated to the head of Linus's tree (5.10-rc5) and got the following
> > > > 'splat' during shutdown.
> > > >
> > > > Userspace is Ubuntu 20.04.
> > > >
> > > > rc4 rebooted fine.
> > > >
> > > > I'll try to bisect - but it isn't quick.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Surely caused by
> > >
> > >
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/efivarfs?id=fe5186cf12e30
> > > facfe261e9be6c7904a170bd822
> >
> > Yep, reboots fine with that kfree() commented out.
> >
>
> Thanks for confirming.
>
> Does it also work when keeping the kfree() and setting
> inode->i_private to NULL explicitly afterwards?

No, that still panics.
Setting i_private NULL (but without the kfree()) is ok.

I'm seeing 42 calls with a non-NULL i_private.
The final call has i_private NULL and isn't a duplicate.

There must be another pointer into one of the structures.

David

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