linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] INFO: rcu detected stall in syscall_exit_to_user

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Date:   Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:36:22 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     paulmck@...nel.org, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        syzbot <syzbot+0e964fad69a9c462bc1e@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [syzbot] INFO: rcu detected stall in syscall_exit_to_user_mode

On Tue, Sep 14 2021 at 11:31, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 08:00:04PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> If I understand it correctly the timer is not actually set up as
>> periodic, but rather each callback invocation arms it again. Setting
>> up a timer for 1 ns _once_ (or few times) is probably fine (right?),
>> so the check needs to be somewhat more elaborate and detect "infinite"
>> rearming.
>
> If it were practical, I would suggest checking for a CPU never actually
> executing any instructions in the interrupted context.  The old-school
> way of doing this was to check the amount of time spent interrupted,
> perhaps adding some guess at interrupt entry/exit overhead.  Is there
> a better new-school way?

Set NR_CPUS=0 and if then any executed instruction is observed the bug
is pretty obvious, isn't it?