linux-kernel - Re: 3.2.0-rc3+ (Linus git - 883381d9f1c5a6329bbb796e23ae52c939940310)

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

Message-ID: <1322632602.23721.0.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:56:42 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 3.2.0-rc3+ (Linus git -
 883381d9f1c5a6329bbb796e23ae52c939940310) - INFO: suspicious RCU usage

Le mercredi 30 novembre 2011 à 00:09 -0500, Miles Lane a écrit :
> I got the following message while running "find /proc | xargs head" to
> see whether accessing any proc files would cause trouble.
> 
> [  442.112632] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
> [  442.112634] -------------------------------
> [  442.112637] include/net/dst.h:91 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
> [  442.112640]
> [  442.112641] other info that might help us debug this:
> [  442.112643]
> [  442.112645]
> [  442.112646] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
> [  442.112650] 2 locks held by head/4903:
> [  442.112652]  #0:  (&p->lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810e160a>]
> seq_read+0x38/0x35d
> [  442.112665]  #1:  (rcu_read_lock_bh){.+....}, at:
> [<ffffffff812f831e>] rcu_read_lock_bh+0x0/0x35
> [  442.112676]
> [  442.112677] stack backtrace:
> [  442.112681] Pid: 4903, comm: head Not tainted 3.2.0-rc3+ #42
> [  442.112684] Call Trace:
> [  442.112691]  [<ffffffff8105cdd2>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xaf/0xb8
> [  442.112697]  [<ffffffff812f8e02>] dst_get_neighbour.isra.31+0x44/0x4c
> [  442.112702]  [<ffffffff812f8e86>] rt_cache_seq_show+0x46/0x194
> [  442.112708]  [<ffffffff812f8351>] ? rcu_read_lock_bh+0x33/0x35
> [  442.112714]  [<ffffffff8104b57a>] ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0x9/0x37
> [  442.112719]  [<ffffffff812f85c2>] ? rt_cache_get_first+0x72/0x116
> [  442.112725]  [<ffffffff810e184d>] seq_read+0x27b/0x35d
> [  442.112730]  [<ffffffff810e15d2>] ? seq_lseek+0xda/0xda
> [  442.112736]  [<ffffffff8110e3e1>] proc_reg_read+0x8e/0xad
> [  442.112741]  [<ffffffff810c6e23>] vfs_read+0xa0/0xc7
> [  442.112746]  [<ffffffff810c80bf>] ? fget_light+0x35/0x98
> [  442.112750]  [<ffffffff810c6e8f>] sys_read+0x45/0x69
> [  442.112756]  [<ffffffff8136a27b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b


Thanks for the report Miles, I'll provide a patch in a couple of minutes
after testing it



--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/