linux-kernel - Re: [-next] system hangs likely due to "modules: Only return -EEXIST for modules that have finished loading"

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Date:   Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:20:52 -0400
From:   Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
To:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, Cathy Avery <cavery@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [-next] system hangs likely due to "modules: Only return -EEXIST
 for modules that have finished loading"



On 4/26/19 3:45 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/26/19 2:10 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 4/26/19 12:09 PM, Jessica Yu wrote:
>>> +++ Heiko Carstens [26/04/19 17:07 +0200]:
>>>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 09:22:34AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>>>>> On 4/26/19 9:07 AM, Heiko Carstens wrote:
>>>>>> Hello Prarit,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> it looks like your commit f9a75c1d717f ("modules: Only return -EEXIST
>>>>>> for modules that have finished loading") _sometimes_ causes hangs on
>>>>>> s390. This is unfortunately not 100% reproducible, however the
>>>>>> mentioned commit seems to be the only relevant one in modules.c.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What I see is a hanging system with messages like this on the console:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [   65.876040] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
>>>>>> [   65.876049] rcu:     7-....: (5999 ticks this GP)
>>>>> idle=eae/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=1181/1181 fqs=2729
>>>>>> [   65.876078]  (t=6000 jiffies g=-471 q=17196)
>>>>>> [   65.876084] Task dump for CPU 7:
>>>>>> [   65.876088] systemd-udevd   R  running task        0   731    721
>>>>> 0x06000004
>>>>>> [   65.876097] Call Trace:
>>>>>> [   65.876113] ([<0000000000abb264>] __schedule+0x2e4/0x6e0)
>>>>>> [   65.876122]  [<00000000001ee486>] finished_loading+0x4e/0xb0
>>>>>> [   65.876128]  [<00000000001f1ed6>] load_module+0xcce/0x27a0
>>>>>> [   65.876134]  [<00000000001f3af0>] __s390x_sys_init_module+0x148/0x178
>>>>>> [   65.876142]  [<0000000000ac0766>] system_call+0x2aa/0x2c8
>>>>>> I did not look any further into the dump, however since the commit
>>>>>> touches exactly the code path which seems to be looping... ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ouch :(  I wonder if I exposed a further race or another bug.  Heiko, can you
>>>>> determine which module is stuck?  Warning: I have not compiled this code.
>>>>
>>>> Here we go:
>>>>
>>>> [   11.716866] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>> [   11.716867] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>> [   11.716868] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>> [   11.716870] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>> [   11.716871] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>> [   11.716872] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>> [   11.716874] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>> [   11.716875] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>> [   11.716876] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>> [   16.726850] add_unformed_module: 31403529 callbacks suppressed
>>>> [   16.726853] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>> [   16.726862] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>> [   16.726865] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>> [   16.726867] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>> [   16.726869] PRARIT: waiting for module s390_trng to load.
>>>>
>>>> If I'm not mistaken then there was _no_ corresponding message on the
>>>> console stating that the module already exists.
>>
>> Heiko,
>>
>> Where is the s390_trng module?  I can't seem to find it in the tree.
>>
>> [02:06 PM root@...-z-108 linux-next]# find ./ -name *s390_trng*
>> [02:06 PM root@...-z-108 linux-next]# git grep s390_trng
>> [02:07 PM root@...-z-108 linux-next]#
>>
> 
> Never mind, I found it: s390-trng.c
> 
> P.
> 
>> P.
>>


Heiko and Jessica,

The issue doesn't appear to be with my patch AFAICT.  The s390_trng fails to
load and then the kernel occasionally hangs (as Heiko mentioned) calling
synchronize_rcu().

The call sequence is

module_load()
	do_init_module()
		do_one_initcall(mod->init)

which fails.

The failure path in do_one_initcall() is entered and we start executing code at
kernel/module.c:3541

fail_free_freeinit:
        kfree(freeinit);
fail:
        /* Try to protect us from buggy refcounters. */
        mod->state = MODULE_STATE_GOING;
        synchronize_rcu();

^^^ the kernel hangs here.  Sometimes it's very short and other times it seems
to hang.   I've left systems that appear to be hung and come back after 10
minutes to find that they've somehow made it through this call.

Is there a known issue with RCU on s390 that is making this occur?

P.