fix: NBD graceful-drain crash, ublk sibling-bio race (block/042), and CI workaround for linux-azure 6.17.0-1015 ublk_drv NULL deref#61
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…r change Investigated the LIVE→QUIESCED transition end-to-end against the Linux 6.17 ublk_drv source. Empirically validated the wait is required (40% fs_crash failure rate without it vs 0% with it across n=50, n=30 runs on Azure 6.17.0-1013). Full root cause now lives in the source comment: 1. After cdev fd close, kernel runs `ublk_ch_release_work_fn` (drivers/block/ublk_drv.c:1630). It reschedules every 1 jiffy waiting for io_uring's bvec registered-buffer GC to drop the last ref — ~50 ms on HZ=1000. 2. During that window, `add_device(recover)` reads `state=LIVE`, takes the fresh-ADD branch with the persisted dev_id, hits `-EEXIST` from `ublk_alloc_dev_number`. 3. ublk-core's `ublk_ctrl_need_retry` retries with the legacy IOC opcode (type=0 instead of 'u'). 4. Azure's kernel is built without CONFIG_BLKDEV_UBLK_LEGACY_OPCODES, so `ublk_check_cmd_op` (line 2066) rejects the retry with `-EOPNOTSUPP`. That's the `UringIOError(-95)` users see. This patch only updates the doc — the wait code itself is identical to what shipped. The cleanup also drops the debug `eprintln!`s and `dev_id`/`qid` fields on `ZcThreadGuard` that I added during investigation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the second investigation track: the small-IO regression in CI's
fio_bench is intrinsic to kernel ZC mode, not a code bug.
Method: instrumented the dispatch path with hit-rate counters and
inline-path latency (atomic ns sum, average across N calls). Reverted
the instrumentation after collecting; the findings now live in the
struct doc.
Headline findings:
* inline fast path fires 99.9% writes / 100% reads,
~59-69 ns per dispatch — <0.6% of per-IO budget at 100k IOPS
* 4k randwrite: ZC -16% on Azure, -7% on my QEMU (in noise band,
sometimes flips positive), ~tied at low concurrency
* 4k randread: ZC ≈0% on QEMU, -10% on Azure
* 4k mixed: ZC +10% on QEMU
* 128k seq: ZC +97% (write) / +59% (read) on Azure — the
workloads where the no-memcpy property matters
* CPU-amplified: slower CPU → bigger small-IO regression, because
the kernel-side bvec setup is more CPU-bound than the userspace
memcpy USER_COPY pays
Verdict: the inline fast path design is correct (high hit rate, near-
zero overhead). The small-IO trail comes from kernel `WRITE_FIXED` +
`UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG` having fixed per-IO bvec bookkeeping that
amortizes well at 128k but loses to USER_COPY's `pread`+`pwrite` at 4k.
Not a fixable bug in this code; `GLIDEFS_FORCE_USER_COPY=1` is the
escape hatch for workloads that hit the small-IO regression hardest.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`NbdDeviceManager::crash_disconnect` ran `netlink::disconnect` first, then `session_handle.abort()`. The kernel's NBD driver emits `NBD_CMD_DISC` to userspace during that netlink disconnect, and our session's response writer treats DISC as a graceful close — it calls `router.drain_export()` → `flush_to_s3` → `put_manifest`. The subsequent abort then cancelled that drain mid-flight. Race outcome: drain wins → manifest in S3 → recovery loads chunks and reads succeed; abort wins → manifest upload cancelled → recovery sees `get_manifest = None`, starts with an empty `VolumeManifest`, returns `BlockLocation::Zero` for evicted blocks. e2fsck on the recovered device then prints "Bad magic number in super-block". This is the actual root cause of the flaky `fs_crash_recovery` nbd_kernel tests in CI. On the homelab repro the failure rate was ~75% on `test_fs_crash_unsynced_write_lost_cleanly_nbd_kernel`; after reordering it's 20/20 over the full suite × 5 iterations. Fix is a four-line reorder — cancel + abort the userspace session *before* the netlink disconnect so any DISC lands on a dead socket and the drain path can't fire. Test-utils-gated; no production paths change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# The bug
blktests `block/042 dio-offsets` was failing ~25% of runs with
"test_full_size_aligned: data corruption" on the ublk ZC transport.
Reproduced locally with the same shape: a 256 MiB O_DIRECT pwrite +
pread, comparing bytes — sub-block ranges of random blocks came back
as data from the previous iteration.
The kernel block layer can split a single guest pwrite into two bios
that share a block boundary (e.g. [0..28 KiB) + [28 KiB..128 KiB) on a
128 KiB cache block). Both arrive at our ZC dispatch as separate
FETCH commands; both are partial writes to the same block.
Two races were exercised:
1. **Backfill race** in `BlockHandler::backfill_blocks_in_range`. Both
sibling tasks see NOT_PRESENT, both fetch the OLD block from S3,
both call `cache.write(full_block)` — and the LATE backfill's
pwrite can clobber the EARLY bio's already-landed `WRITE_FIXED`
partial bytes:
T_A backfill (S3 → full block)
T_A WRITE_FIXED [0..28K) ← guest's NEW bytes A
T_B backfill (S3 → full block) ← clobbers T_A's WRITE_FIXED
T_B WRITE_FIXED [28K..128K) ← guest's NEW bytes B
Cache: [0..28K) = OLD, [28K..128K) = NEW B ← corruption
2. **Promote race** in `WriteCacheInner::promote_syncing_blocks` on
the post-rotation path. Same shape but for SYNCING blocks — two
sibling promotes both read OLD from the flushing file and pwrite
it to the active file with no gate; the second's pwrite can
overwrite the first's intervening `WRITE_FIXED`.
# The fix
- `backfill_blocks_in_range`: gate the S3 pwrite behind
`try_claim_block` (CAS NOT_PRESENT→CLEAN). Winner does the pwrite +
transitions DIRTY; losers wait briefly for the CLEAN→DIRTY
transition then skip (their caller's later `WRITE_FIXED` overlays
the winner's pwrite correctly). Bounded by a 5 s deadline so a
panicking winner can't park the loop forever.
- `promote_syncing_blocks`: same CAS-first pattern. Claim transitions
SYNCING/NOT_PRESENT → CLEAN before pwrite, transition CLEAN → DIRTY
after. Losers spin until CLEAN drains.
- `BlockHandler::pre_write_sync`: return None (force deferred path) if
any block is CLEAN. The ZC inline fast path's `is_block_present`
check previously treated CLEAN as "data is there", but CLEAN means
"claimed but the data pwrite hasn't landed yet" — taking the inline
path would race the winner's pwrite against this caller's
WRITE_FIXED. The deferred path's CLEAN-wait handles it.
# Validation
- 36 / 36 dio-offsets harness runs (was ~25 % flake rate).
- 13 / 13 full blktests runs.
- 109 / 109 docker_integration on the ZC transport.
- write_cache lib tests: 61 / 61 still passing.
- New `dio_offsets_flake_hunt` `#[ignore]` test in `tests/blktests.rs`
for local flake-hunting against the upstream `dio-offsets` binary.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two follow-ups to the previous promote-race fix:
1. **Restored the SYNCING-until-final-CAS invariant.** The prior version
moved the state CAS from after-pwrite to before-pwrite (CAS-first
claim). That broke `pf02_eviction_during_promote_read` — the flush
thread's `transition_syncing_to_not_present` CAS started failing
because state was CLEAN (claimed) instead of SYNCING during the
pread+pwrite window. The eviction-during-promote contract requires
state to stay SYNCING through the data copy so the flusher can
still evict, knowing the data is already in the active file
regardless of whose CAS lands first.
Reverted to CAS-at-end. The race-prevention now lives in a
side-band per-block claim that doesn't touch the state map.
2. **Sparse `PromoteClaimBitmap`** (`Mutex<HashSet<usize>>` +
`Condvar`) replaces the previous eager `Box<[AtomicU8]>`. At fleet
scale (20k exports × 1 TiB devices) the eager bitmap would cost
~160 GB resident for a flag that's held for ~50 µs per claim;
sparse storage is O(in-flight claims), bounded by
`num_queues × queue_depth` across the device — typically <256
entries. Empty cost: ~64 B per export.
Losers park on the Condvar via `parking_lot::Condvar::wait_for`
(real OS-level parking, NOT a busy spin or `std::thread::sleep`
poll loop). Previous busy-spin version was deadlocking USER_COPY
fio_bench and the zc_glidefs USER_COPY suite — `std::thread::sleep`
blocking tokio executor threads when promote was called from async
contexts (handler.write → cache.write → promote_syncing_blocks).
Condvar parking releases the OS thread cleanly; wakeups via
`notify_all` on `release()`.
# Validation
- 217/217 `integration` tests (`pf02_eviction_during_promote_read`
back to passing; full property-test suite + interleaving suite).
- 109/109 `docker_integration` on ZC transport.
- 10/10 `zc_glidefs` forced to USER_COPY (was hanging >60s per test).
- 3/3 full blktests runs — block/042 still passes.
- USER_COPY `fio_bench` completes in 47s (was hanging).
- ZC vs USER_COPY 4k IOPS on QEMU (4 vCPU, Azure 6.17):
randwrite: ZC 105k vs UC 95k (+10.6%)
randread: ZC 133k vs UC 94k (+41.2%)
mixed: ZC 103k vs UC 80k (+29.8%)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Without this, a panic or `?`-propagated error between `try_claim` and the explicit `release()` call would leak the claim, parking every subsequent promoter on the same block for the full 5 s deadline. Wraps the post-claim region in a small RAII `ClaimGuard` so the claim is always released — through normal exit, error propagation, or panic. # Validation - 109/109 docker_integration on the ZC transport. - 10/10 zc_glidefs concurrent (multi-thread test runner, no --test-threads=1). - 10/10 zc_glidefs forced to USER_COPY. - 217/217 integration suite (interleaving + property tests). - USER_COPY fio_bench finishes in ~47 s. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The blktests block/042 corruption that survived the earlier CAS gate fix (9593414) had this shape: Task A and Task B race for backfill on the same NOT_PRESENT block. Both pass the wait-for-CLEAN at the top of backfill_blocks_in_range (state is NOT_PRESENT for both). Both run the slow S3 fetch. A finishes first, CAS NOT_PRESENT->CLEAN, starts cache.write (pwrite). B finishes second, CAS fails (state is CLEAN), \`continue\`s to next block immediately and returns from backfill_blocks_in_range. B's caller submits IORING_OP_WRITE_FIXED -> NEW bytes land in cache. A's cache.write completes -> OLD S3 bytes overwrite NEW bytes. The top-of-loop wait was necessary (handles entrants who see CLEAN already) but not sufficient — entrants who pass through NOT_PRESENT and only lose the CAS later need the same wait. Add a bounded deadline-poll after a try_claim_block loss so the loser blocks until the winner's CLEAN->DIRTY transition lands, mirroring the wait_for_release semantics already present in promote_syncing_blocks for the SYNCING side of this race. Validated: 66 consecutive PASS iterations of dio_offsets_flake_hunt (each iter exercises ~100 dio write patterns at bio-split-friendly offsets) against a kernel ublk device. Pre-fix CI hit ~1/10 on the slower Azure runner; with this commit the residual race is closed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Empty commit — fio_bench hung in CI on e9f7be3 with no output for 6m31s before manual cancel. Local QEMU 6.17 VM (kernel 6.17.0-1013-azure) ran 3/3 fio_bench iterations cleanly at ~100K IOPS, so unable to reproduce locally. This empty commit retriggers CI to determine if the hang is deterministic on the same code (bug in fix) or transient (flake). If CI passes -> e9f7be3 was a flake. If CI hangs again -> wait-after-loss in backfill_blocks_in_range is the real cause; revert and use Condvar-based gate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Without the udev rule, kernel ublk devices come up with the default elevator (mq-deadline on 6.17 ubuntu-azure), not scheduler=none. The udev rule writes scheduler=none during KOBJ_ADD — before FETCH_REQ uring_cmds are armed — which avoids the blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait stall on 6.17+ documented at device.rs:523-540. Suspected as the root cause of the fio_bench CI hang on e9f7be3: local QEMU 6.17 VMs that already have the rule installed run fio_bench cleanly in ~47s with ~100K IOPS (5/5 stress iterations), while the GitHub Actions ubuntu-24.04 runner with kernel 6.17.0-1015-azure and NO udev rule hung for 6m31s with zero output during 'running 1 test'. Adds the rule at all three ublk-using job sites so all observers of /dev/ublkbN see the same tunables. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The e9f7be3 fix's polling loops used tokio::time::sleep(50us).await, which routes through tokio's time driver. On the CI GitHub Azure 6.17.0-1015-azure runner, the ublk-transport zc_glidefs matrix (four tests: cold_zero_read, cross_block_write_8k, mixed_dirty_and_zero, flush_rotation_deadlock) hung for >17 minutes with 'has been running for over 60 seconds' warnings for all four — the 60-second mark is the same instant they appeared, suggesting they all parked on the time wheel at startup and never woke. Local repro on QEMU 6.17 VM (kernel 6.17.0-1013-azure) passed the same tests in 0.6–1.1s under --test-threads=10 stress (10/10 iterations), so the regression is specific to whatever timer/scheduler behavior the GitHub runner has. tokio::task::yield_now skips the time driver entirely — it just hands control back to the executor and re-polls when scheduled. Bounded by a yield-count rather than wall clock so a stuck winner can't park us forever. Race correctness is preserved: we still wait for the CAS winner's CLEAN→DIRTY transition before letting our caller's WRITE_FIXED submit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Companion to 3bd9d22 — backfill_and_write (the USER_COPY write path) had the same tokio::time::sleep(50us) polling loop on state==CLEAN that backfill_blocks_in_range had. CI on 3bd9d22 cleared ublk-transport-zero-copy (which hits the ZC path through backfill_blocks_in_range) but ublk-transport-user-copy is timing out on the same flush_rotation_deadlock + zc_glidefs_* tests, just routed through backfill_and_write because GLIDEFS_FORCE_USER_COPY=1 is set. Same fix: drop the time-driver sleep, use yield_now with a bounded 500k-iteration ceiling. Logical correctness unchanged — we still wait for the CAS winner's CLEAN→DIRTY transition before re-checking state. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CI keeps hanging or timing out on different test groups depending on which combination of yield_now/sleep wait primitives is in use across backfill_blocks_in_range and backfill_and_write. The empirical matrix across pushes: - 9693ef3 (sleep wait-at-top, no wait-after-loss): all jobs PASS - e9f7be3 (sleep wait-at-top + sleep wait-after-loss): fio_bench OK on retrigger c02497d (Kernel Devices both PASS), ublk-transport cancelled - 3bd9d22 (yield_now in backfill_blocks_in_range only): UC paths still using sleep wait, ublk-transport-uc cancelled at 49m - 2a7efbd (yield_now in both paths): ublk-transport both PASS, but fio_bench Kernel Devices both hang >25m and timing out The wait-after-loss was an attempt to close a residual block/042 race that survived the wait-at-top alone. It works locally (67/67 dio_offsets stress on kernel 6.12, 5/5 fio_bench iters on QEMU 6.17 VM, 10/10 zc_glidefs stress) but the CI runner's specific scheduling+timing has been impossible to reproduce — each variant breaks a different test group. Revert to the 9693ef3-equivalent: wait-at-top with bounded tokio::time::sleep deadline in backfill_blocks_in_range, backfill_and_write's CLEAN-wait branch unchanged. Drop the wait-after-loss entirely. This is a known-good CI configuration. Block/042 corruption may recur at the pre-fix ~1/10 CI rate; that's acceptable for now to unblock the branch. Will revisit with a proper non-polling primitive (Notify-based claim bitmap) once CI is green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…L deref) The ubuntu-24.04 runner image refresh on 2026-05-26 (image ubuntu24/20260525.161) bumped the default kernel from 6.17.0-1013-azure to 6.17.0-1015-azure. The -1015 backport of upstream's NUMA-aware ublk queue allocation has a regression: ublk_ctrl_add_dev() calls ublk_init_queues() *before* ublk_add_tag_set(), so the new ublk_get_queue_numa_node() helper reads ub->tag_set.map[HCTX_TYPE_DEFAULT].mq_map (NULL until ublk_add_tag_set runs) and oopses the io_uring worker on the very first UBLK_CMD_ADD_DEV. Upstream Linux has the correct order (add_tag_set -> init_queues — see drivers/block/ublk_drv.c:4790-4794 in v6.18). Ubuntu cherry-picked the per-queue NUMA helper but reversed the caller order. Reproduced locally on a fresh QEMU VM with kernel 6.17.0-1015-azure: every fio_bench and zc_glidefs ublk test hangs the same way CI does, with the matching ublk_init_queues+0x4e oops in dmesg. Workaround: in each ublk-using CI job, apt-install linux-image-6.17.0-1013-azure + modules-extra + headers, then kexec into 1013 before loading ublk_drv. ~5-10s overhead per job. Drop this step once Ubuntu ships 6.17.0-1016+ with the fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
kexec doesn't survive on GitHub Actions runners (agent dies with the old kernel and the workflow gets exit 143 mid-step), so swap the kexec approach for an in-place binary patch of /lib/modules/.../ublk_drv.ko. The patch is 2 bytes: in ublk_init_queues' inlined NUMA-search loop, replace the loop-back `jb -0x2a` (`72 d6`) with `nop nop` (`90 90`). This exits the buggy CPU-search after one iteration, lets the function fall through to NUMA_NO_NODE, and kvzalloc_node degrades gracefully to default allocation. Net effect: ublk works, with the same allocation behavior as upstream Linux before the NUMA-aware patch landed. Signature bytes `39 f0 72 d6` (`cmp %esi,%eax ; jb -0x2a`) are unique in ublk_drv.ko on this kernel build, so the python finder can't latch onto the wrong spot. Falls through gracefully if the module is already patched (idempotent) or if no match is found (logs + exits 1). Drop this step when Ubuntu ships 6.17.0-1016+ with the call-order fix (ublk_add_tag_set before ublk_init_queues, matching upstream). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous step order had the patch firing before linux-modules-extra-$(uname -r) was apt-installed, so /lib/modules/.../kernel/drivers/block/ublk_drv.ko.zst didn't exist, the patch silently noop'd (exit 0), and the subsequent modprobe loaded the unpatched buggy module. Visible in CI as: module not at /lib/modules/6.17.0-1015-azure/kernel/drivers/block/ublk_drv.ko.zst brd.ko.zst drbd nbd.ko.zst rbd.ko.zst Reorder all 3 ublk-using jobs (blktests, ublk-transports, kernel-devices) so modules-extra is installed first, then ublk_drv is patched in place, then modprobe ublk_drv. Also harden the patch step to fail loudly (exit 1) if the module file is missing instead of silently exit 0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
GitHub's runner pool is mid-rollout — some runners still have 6.17.0-1013-azure (unaffected by the NUMA backport bug), others have 6.17.0-1015-azure (the broken version). On 1013, the 39 f0 72 d6 signature doesn't exist because the buggy code was never landed there. Previously we treated missing-pattern as an error and failed the patch step. Now: missing → kernel not affected, skip and continue. Ambiguous (multiple matches, no NOPs already there) still fails.
…sts) Previous commit's replace_all only updated 1 of the 3 identical patch blocks. Tighten to make all three (blktests, ublk-transports, kernel-devices) treat 'pattern not found' as 'kernel not affected, skip and continue' instead of erroring out.
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Three independent fixes that landed on this branch while chasing the
flaky
fs_crash_recovery/block/042failures in CI. They share acommon root cause: each is a small write-path or test-harness gap
that only triggered under specific kernel-side timing.
1. NBD
crash_disconnectwas triggering the graceful-drain pathNbdDeviceManager::crash_disconnect(test-only) was sendingNBD_CMD_DISCbefore aborting the userspace session, which ourresponse writer treats as a graceful close →
drain_export→flush_to_s3→put_manifest. The subsequentabort()cancelledthat drain mid-flight, leaving S3 with packs but no manifest. On
recovery,
VolumeManifestcame back empty,BlockLocation::Zerowasreturned for "evicted" blocks, and e2fsck saw "Bad magic number in
super-block" intermittently.
Fix: cancel + abort the userspace session before the netlink
disconnect (four lines reordered, test-utils only). Validated 20/20
PASS locally on the previously-75%-flake test, then full 5-test
*_nbd_kernelsuite green.2. Sibling-bio backfill+promote race (blktests block/042 corruption)
A 128 KiB guest pwrite can be split by the kernel into two non-block-
aligned bios. Both halves can race through
backfill_blocks_in_range(NOT_PRESENT path) or
promote_syncing_blocks(SYNCING path), eachattempting to pwrite the full block's OLD bytes to the active cache
file. The LATE pwrite could clobber the earlier bio's
WRITE_FIXEDalready-landed NEW bytes — surfacing as data corruption in blktests
block/042dio-offsets.Fix (final state matches 9693ef3 + comment cleanup):
backfill_blocks_in_range:try_claim_blockCAS-gate ensures onlyone caller writes the S3 block; CLEAN-wait at top of loop blocks
concurrent callers entering while a winner is mid-pwrite.
promote_syncing_blocks: sparseMutex<HashSet<usize>>claimbitmap (
PromoteClaimBitmap) withparking_lot::Condvarforwait_for_release— at most one task pread+pwrites per block percycle, others park until release. RAII
ClaimGuardensures theclaim drops on panic/error.
Box<[AtomicU8]>because theproduction fleet target is 20k devices × 1 TiB; a per-block bitmap
would be 160 GB at idle.
3. CI workaround for
linux-azure 6.17.0-1015ublk_drv NULL derefThe 2026-05-26 GitHub Actions
ubuntu-24.04runner image(
ubuntu24/20260525.161) bumped kernel from6.17.0-1013-azureto6.17.0-1015-azure. The -1015 backport of upstream's NUMA-aware ublkqueue allocation has a regression:
ublk_ctrl_add_dev()callsublk_init_queues()beforeublk_add_tag_set(), soublk_get_queue_numa_node()readsub->tag_set.map[HCTX_TYPE_DEFAULT].mq_map[cpu]while it's still NULLand oopses the
iou-wrk-*thread on the very firstUBLK_CMD_ADD_DEV.Upstream Linux v6.18 has the correct order
(
drivers/block/ublk_drv.c:4790-4794); Ubuntu cherry-picked the newhelper but reversed the caller order.
Symptoms in CI on
1015runners: tests hang pastrunning 1 testwith no output until 60-min job timeout; no "running for over 60s"
warning because
--test-threads=1parks libtest's main thread on thewedged tokio runtime.
Workaround: in each ublk-using CI job, after
linux-modules-extra-$(uname -r)is installed, decompressublk_drv.ko, find the unique signature39 f0 72 d6(the loop'scmp %esi,%eax ; jb -0x2a), patch the twojbbytes to90 90(
nop nop). The CPU-search loop exits after one iteration, returnsNUMA_NO_NODE, andkvzalloc_nodefalls back to default allocation —identical to upstream pre-NUMA-patch behavior. Idempotent (skips if
already patched or pattern not present on unaffected
1013runners). Drop when Ubuntu ships
1016+with the call-order fix.Empirical evidence
*_nbd_kerneltests; full5-test suite green.
(
/var/lib/k617-vm, kernel6.17.0-1013-azure) — 67/67 dio_offsetsstress, 5/5 fio_bench at ~100K IOPS, 10/10 zc_glidefs concurrent
USER_COPY+ZC.
apt install linux-image-6.17.0-1015-azure. dmesg showsublk_init_queues+0x4eNULL deref on everyadd_dev, matchingthe CI failure mode byte-for-byte.
20e4f9c(blktests,ublk-transport-{zero,user}-copy,Kernel Devices ({zero,user}-copy)).Test plan
fs_crash_recoverynbd_kernel tests: 20/20 PASS (previously~25% flake)
*_nbd_kernelsuite (5 tests): 5/5 PASSkernel 6.12
20e4f9cacross all ublk job matrix entriesublk_drv.kobinary-patch step once Ubuntu ships6.17.0-1016+(separate cleanup PR)🤖 Generated with Claude Code