linux-ext4 - Re: [GIT PULL] ext2, quota, and udf fixes for 6.6-rc1

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20231018184613.tphd3grenbxwgy2v@quack3>
Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:46:13 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Ferry Toth <ftoth@...londelft.nl>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ext2, quota, and udf fixes for 6.6-rc1

On Tue 17-10-23 19:02:52, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 06:34:50PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 06:14:54PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 05:50:10PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 04:42:29PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 03:32:45PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue 17-10-23 14:46:20, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 01:32:53PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 01:29:27PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 01:27:19PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:24:34PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > >   Hello Linus,
> 
> ...
> 
> > > > > > > > > > This merge commit (?) broke boot on Intel Merrifield.
> > > > > > > > > > It has earlycon enabled and only what I got is watchdog
> > > > > > > > > > trigger without a bit of information printed out.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Okay, seems false positive as with different configuration it
> > > > > > > boots. It might be related to the size of the kernel itself.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Ah, ok, that makes some sense.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I should have mentioned that it boots with the configuration say "A",
> > > > > while not with "B", where "B" = "A" + "C" and definitely the kernel
> > > > > and initrd sizes in the "B" case are bigger.
> > > > 
> > > > If it's a size (which is only grew from 13M->14M), it's weird.
> > > > 
> > > > Nevertheless, I reverted these in my local tree
> > > > 
> > > > 85515a7f0ae7 (HEAD -> topic/mrfld) Revert "defconfig: enable DEBUG_SPINLOCK"
> > > > 786e04262621 Revert "defconfig: enable DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP"
> > > > 76ad0a0c3f2d Revert "defconfig: enable DEBUG_INFO"
> > > > f8090166c1be Revert "defconfig: enable DEBUG_LIST && DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD"
> > > > 
> > > > and it boots again! So, after this merge something affects one of this?
> > > > 
> > > > I'll continuing debugging which one is a culprit, just want to share
> > > > the intermediate findings.
> > > 
> > > CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST with this merge commit somehow triggers this issue.
> > > Any ideas?
> 
> > Dropping CONFIG_QUOTA* helps as well.
> 
> More precisely it's enough to drop either from CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST and CONFIG_QUOTA
> to make it boot again.
> 
> And I'm done for today.

OK, thanks for debugging! So can you perhaps enable CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST
permanently in your kernel config and then bisect through the quota changes
in the merge? My guess is commit dabc8b20756 ("quota: fix dqput() to follow
the guarantees dquot_srcu should provide") might be the culprit given your
testing but I fail to see how given I don't expect any quotas to be used
during boot of your platform... BTW, there's also fixup: 869b6ea160
("quota: Fix slow quotaoff") merged last week so you could try testing a
kernel after this fix to see whether it changes anything.

								Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR