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Message-ID: <df01bde2-65ab-3892-ec9d-848d94e5b8e7@alu.unizg.hr>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 04:35:10 +0100
From: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"regressions@...ts.linux.dev" <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>,
Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>,
systemd-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: BUG: kworker + systemd-udevd memory leaks found in 6.1.0-rc4
On 10. 11. 2022. 10:20, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 05:57:57AM +0100, Mirsad Goran Todorovac wrote:
>> On 04. 11. 2022. 11:40, Mirsad Goran Todorovac wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Sirs,
>>>
>>> When building a RPM 6.1.0-rc3 for AlmaLinux 8.6, I have enabled
>>> CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=y
>>> and the result showed an unreferenced object in kworker process:
>>>
>>> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
>>> unreferenced object 0xffffa01dabff6100 (size 16):
>>> comm "kworker/u12:4", pid 400, jiffies 4294894771 (age 5284.956s)
>>> hex dump (first 16 bytes):
>>> 6d 65 6d 73 74 69 63 6b 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 memstick0.......
>>> backtrace:
>>> [<000000009ff951f6>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x380/0x4e0
>>> [<00000000451f4268>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x55/0x150
>>> [<0000000005472512>] kstrdup+0x36/0x70
>>> [<000000002f797ac4>] kstrdup_const+0x28/0x30
>>> [<00000000e3f86581>] kvasprintf_const+0x78/0xa0
>>> [<00000000e15920f7>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x23/0xa0
>>> [<000000004158a6c0>] dev_set_name+0x53/0x70
>>> [<000000001a120541>] memstick_check+0xff/0x384 [memstick]
>>> [<00000000122bb894>] process_one_work+0x214/0x3f0
>>> [<00000000fcf282cc>] worker_thread+0x34/0x3d0
>>> [<0000000002409855>] kthread+0xed/0x120
>>> [<000000007b02b4a3>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
>>> unreferenced object 0xffffa01dabff6ec0 (size 16):
>>> comm "kworker/u12:4", pid 400, jiffies 4294894774 (age 5284.944s)
>>> hex dump (first 16 bytes):
>>> 6d 65 6d 73 74 69 63 6b 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 memstick0.......
>>> backtrace:
>>> [<000000009ff951f6>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x380/0x4e0
>>> [<00000000451f4268>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x55/0x150
>>> [<0000000005472512>] kstrdup+0x36/0x70
>>> [<000000002f797ac4>] kstrdup_const+0x28/0x30
>>> [<00000000e3f86581>] kvasprintf_const+0x78/0xa0
>>> [<00000000e15920f7>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x23/0xa0
>>> [<000000004158a6c0>] dev_set_name+0x53/0x70
>>> [<000000001a120541>] memstick_check+0xff/0x384 [memstick]
>>> [<00000000122bb894>] process_one_work+0x214/0x3f0
>>> [<00000000fcf282cc>] worker_thread+0x34/0x3d0
>>> [<0000000002409855>] kthread+0xed/0x120
>>> [<000000007b02b4a3>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
>>> #
>>>
>>> Please fing the build config and lshw output attached.
>>>
>>> dmesg is useless, as it is filled with events like:
>>>
>>> [ 6068.996120] evbug: Event. Dev: input4, Type: 1, Code: 31, Value: 0
>>> [ 6068.996121] evbug: Event. Dev: input4, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
>>> [ 6069.124145] evbug: Event. Dev: input4, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 458762
>>> [ 6069.124149] evbug: Event. Dev: input4, Type: 1, Code: 34, Value: 1
>>> [ 6069.124150] evbug: Event. Dev: input4, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
>>> [ 6069.196003] evbug: Event. Dev: input4, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 458762
>>> [ 6069.196007] evbug: Event. Dev: input4, Type: 1, Code: 34, Value: 0
>>> [ 6069.196009] evbug: Event. Dev: input4, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
>>> [ 6069.788129] evbug: Event. Dev: input4, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 458792
>>> [ 6069.788133] evbug: Event. Dev: input4, Type: 1, Code: 28, Value: 1
>>> [ 6069.788135] evbug: Event. Dev: input4, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
>>
>> This bug is confirmed in 6.1-rc4, among the "thermald" and "systemd-dev"
>> kernel memory leaks, potentially exposing race conditions or other more
>> serious bug.
>
> How is a memory leak a race condition?
>
>> The bug is now also confirmed and now manifested also in the Ubuntu 22.04
>> LTS jammy 6.1-rc4 build.
>>
>> Here is the kmemleak output:
>>
>> unreferenced object 0xffff9242b13b3980 (size 64):
>> comm "kworker/5:3", pid 43106, jiffies 4305052439 (age 71828.792s)
>> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>> 80 8b a0 f0 42 92 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....B...........
>> 20 86 a0 f0 42 92 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...B...........
>> backtrace:
>> [<00000000c5dea4db>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x380/0x4e0
>> [<000000002b17af47>] kmalloc_node_trace+0x27/0xa0
>> [<000000004c09eee5>] xhci_alloc_command+0x6e/0x180
>
> This is a totally different backtrace from above, how are they related?
>
> This looks like a potential xhci issue. Can you use 'git bisect' to
> track down the offending change that caused this?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Hello, Greg, Thorsten!
After multiple attempts, my box's UEFI refuses to run pre-4.17 kernels.
The bisect shows the problem appeared before 4.17, so unless I find what is
causing black screen when booting pre-4.17 kernels, it's a no-go ... :(
Thanks,
Mirsad
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Mirsad Goran Todorovac
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