linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/220] 4.19.86-stable review

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Date:   Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:16:31 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/220] 4.19.86-stable review

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 06:47:05AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 11/22/19 2:26 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.86 release.
> > There are 220 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> > 
> > Responses should be made by Sun, 24 Nov 2019 09:59:19 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> 
> I see the following warning (at least for arm64, ppc64, and x86_64).
> This seems to be caused by "idr: Fix idr_get_next race with idr_remove".
> v4.14.y is also affected. Mainline and v5.3.y are not affected.
> 
> Guenter
> 
> ---
> [    3.897800] NetLabel: Initializing
> [    3.897944] NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
> [    3.898044] NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 CALIPSO
> [    3.898995]
> [    3.899135] =============================
> [    3.899235] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> [    3.899479] 4.19.86-rc1+ #1 Not tainted
> [    3.899595] -----------------------------
> [    3.899772] include/linux/radix-tree.h:241 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
> [    3.899939]
> [    3.899939] other info that might help us debug this:
> [    3.899939]
> [    3.900159]
> [    3.900159] rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
> [    3.900347] 2 locks held by swapper/0/1:
> [    3.900479]  #0: (____ptrval____) (cb_lock){+.+.}, at: genl_register_family+0xab/0x717
> [    3.901498]  #1: (____ptrval____) (genl_mutex){+.+.}, at: genl_register_family+0xb9/0x717
> [    3.901860]
> [    3.901860] stack backtrace:
> [    3.902136] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.19.86-rc1+ #1
> [    3.902295] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> [    3.902633] Call Trace:
> [    3.902633]  dump_stack+0x71/0xa0
> [    3.902633]  idr_get_next+0x133/0x160
> [    3.902633]  ? genl_register_family+0xab/0x717
> [    3.902633]  ? do_early_param+0x89/0x89
> [    3.902633]  genl_family_find_byname+0x4e/0x80
> [    3.902633]  genl_register_family+0xc1/0x717
> [    3.902633]  ? do_early_param+0x89/0x89
> [    3.902633]  ? netlbl_netlink_init+0x21/0x21
> [    3.902633]  netlbl_netlink_init+0x5/0x21
> [    3.902633]  netlbl_init+0x4a/0x74
> [    3.902633]  do_one_initcall+0x58/0x2ae
> [    3.902633]  ? do_early_param+0x89/0x89
> [    3.902633]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x6f/0x80
> [    3.902633]  ? do_early_param+0x89/0x89
> [    3.902633]  kernel_init_freeable+0x1bc/0x24b
> [    3.902633]  ? rest_init+0x176/0x176
> [    3.902633]  kernel_init+0x5/0x101
> [    3.902633]  ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
> 

Willy, this looks like something from your patch, is it to be expected?

thanks,

greg k-h