linux-kernel - WARNING: at include/linux/iocontext.h:140 copy

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]

Date:	Tue, 01 May 2012 14:05:36 +0200
From:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: WARNING: at include/linux/iocontext.h:140 copy_io+0xb9/0x130()

Hi all,

I've stumbled on the warning at the bottom with today's linux-next within a KVM guest doing syscall fuzzing using trinity.

I haven't encountered this warning before, and it looks like it's not easy to reproduce it within the guest. Looking at the code in that area I guess it's some sorts of a rare race condition.

The only recent commits in that area are the work done on blk cgroup. It is enabled in the test kernel.

[  418.101833] WARNING: at include/linux/iocontext.h:140 copy_io+0xb9/0x130()
[  418.108177] Pid: 29267, comm: trinity Tainted: G        W    3.4.0-rc5-next-20120501-sasha #104
[  418.108180] Call Trace:
[  418.108186]  [<ffffffff810b6c67>] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xb0
[  418.108189]  [<ffffffff810b6ca5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[  418.108192]  [<ffffffff810b44d9>] copy_io+0xb9/0x130
[  418.108196]  [<ffffffff810b5ae4>] copy_process+0x884/0xf90
[  418.108200]  [<ffffffff810f17c5>] ? sched_clock_local+0x25/0x90
[  418.108203]  [<ffffffff810b65b7>] do_fork+0x137/0x240
[  418.108208]  [<ffffffff810e808e>] ? sub_preempt_count+0xae/0xf0
[  418.108212]  [<ffffffff82d92cf9>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x59/0x80
[  418.108216]  [<ffffffff82d93be5>] ? sysret_check+0x22/0x5d
[  418.108219]  [<ffffffff81057b13>] sys_clone+0x23/0x30
[  418.108222]  [<ffffffff82d93f43>] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
[  418.108225]  [<ffffffff82d93bb9>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[  418.108228] ---[ end trace 8f6ca168297608bb ]---

--
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/