linux-kernel - Re: INFO: rcu detected stall in ndisc_alloc

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Message-ID: <ef2508c9-d069-2143-09a6-a90b9ef12568@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date:   Mon, 31 Dec 2018 17:17:17 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        syzbot <syzbot+ea7d9cb314b4ab49a18a@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: INFO: rcu detected stall in ndisc_alloc_skb

On 2018/12/31 16:49, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 8:42 AM syzbot
> <syzbot+ea7d9cb314b4ab49a18a@...kaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> syzbot found the following crash on:
>>
>> HEAD commit:    ef4ab8447aa2 selftests: bpf: install script with_addr.sh
>> git tree:       bpf-next
>> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=14a28b6e400000
>> kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=7e7e2279c0020d5f
>> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ea7d9cb314b4ab49a18a
>> compiler:       gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180413 (experimental)
>>
>> Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this crash yet.
>>
>> IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
>> Reported-by: syzbot+ea7d9cb314b4ab49a18a@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> 
> Since this involves OOMs and looks like a one-off induced memory corruption:
> 
> #syz dup: kernel panic: corrupted stack end in wb_workfn
> 

Why?

RCU stall in this case is likely to be latency caused by flooding of printk().