linux-kernel - linux-next: boot failure after merge of the final tree (tip related)

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: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

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

Message-Id: <20100415161214.04637496.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:12:14 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: linux-next: boot failure after merge of the final tree (tip
 related)

Hi all,

Yesterday's (and today's) linux-next boot (PowerPC) failed like this:

------------[ cut here ]------------
Badness at kernel/lockdep.c:2301
NIP: c0000000000a35c8 LR: c0000000000084c4 CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c000000000bf77e0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (2.6.34-rc4-autokern1)
MSR: 8000000000021032 <ME,CE,IR,DR>  CR: 24000044  XER: 00000004
TASK = c000000000aa3d30[0] 'swapper' THREAD: c000000000bf4000 CPU: 0
GPR00: 0000000000000001 c000000000bf7a60 c000000000bf32f0 c0000000000084c4 
GPR04: 0000000000000000 0000000000000a00 0000000000000000 0000000000000068 
GPR08: 0000000000000008 c000000000c4fabe 0000000000000000 7265677368657265 
GPR12: 8000000000009032 c000000007691000 0000000001c00000 c000000000770bf8 
GPR16: c00000000076f390 0000000000000000 0000000000430000 00000000024876f0 
GPR20: c000000000887480 0000000002487480 c0000000008876f0 0000000001b5f8d0 
GPR24: c000000000770478 0000000003300000 c000000000c1f1c8 c000000000884610 
GPR28: c000000000c1b290 c0000000000084c4 c000000000b45068 c000000000aa3d30 
NIP [c0000000000a35c8] .trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xb0/0x224
LR [c0000000000084c4] system_call_common+0xc4/0x114
Call Trace:
[c000000000bf7a60] [c000000000bf7ba0] init_thread_union+0x3ba0/0x4000 (unreliable)
[c000000000bf7af0] [c0000000000084c4] system_call_common+0xc4/0x114
--- Exception: c01 at .kernel_thread+0x28/0x70
    LR = .rest_init+0x34/0xf8
[c000000000bf7de0] [c00000000086916c] .proc_sys_init+0x20/0x64 (unreliable)
[c000000000bf7e50] [c0000000000099c0] .rest_init+0x20/0xf8
[c000000000bf7ee0] [c000000000848af0] .start_kernel+0x484/0x4a8
[c000000000bf7f90] [c0000000000083c0] .start_here_common+0x1c/0x5c
Instruction dump:
409e0188 0fe00000 48000180 801f08d8 2f800000 41be0050 880d01da 2fa00000 
41be0028 e93e8538 88090000 68000001 <0b000000> 2fa00000 41be0010 e93e8538 
------------[ cut here ]------------

Caused by commit bd6d29c25bb1a24a4c160ec5de43e0004e01f72b ("lockstat:
Make lockstat counting per cpu").  This added a WARN_ON_ONCE to
debug_atomic_inc() which is called from trace_hardirqs_on_caller() with
irqs enabled.

Line 2301 is:

        if (unlikely(curr->hardirqs_enabled)) {
                debug_atomic_inc(redundant_hardirqs_on);   <--- 2301
                return;
        }

This is especially bad since on PowerPC, WARN_ON is a TRAP and the return
path from the TRAP also calls trace_hardirqs_on_caller(), so the TRAP
recurses ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

Content of type "application/pgp-signature" skipped