On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 11:12:18AM +0200, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > while booting AM437x device, the following splat
> > triggered:
> >
> > [ 12.005238] ===============================
> > [ 12.009749] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
> > [ 12.014116] 4.2.0-next-20150831 #1154 Not tainted
> > [ 12.019050] -------------------------------
> > [ 12.023408] security/device_cgroup.c:405 device_cgroup:verify_new_ex
> > called without proper synchronization!
> > [ 12.033576] other info that might help us debug this:
> >
> > [ 12.041942] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
> > [ 12.048796] 4 locks held by systemd/1:
> > [ 12.052700] #0: (sb_writers#7){.+.+.+}, at: [<c017af84>]
> > __sb_start_write+0x8c/0xb0
> > [ 12.060954] #1: (&of->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c01f1600>]
> > kernfs_fop_write+0x50/0x1b8
> > [ 12.069085] #2: (s_active#30){++++.+}, at: [<c01f1608>]
> > kernfs_fop_write+0x58/0x1b8
> > [ 12.077310] #3: (devcgroup_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<c0317bfc>]
> > devcgroup_access_write+0x20/0x658
> > [ 12.086575] stack backtrace:
> > [ 12.091124] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.2.0-next-20150831
> > #1154
> > [ 12.098609] Hardware name: Generic AM43 (Flattened Device Tree)
> > [ 12.104807] [<c001770c>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0013a58>]
> > (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> > [ 12.112924] [<c0013a58>] (show_stack) from [<c034f014>]
> > (dump_stack+0x84/0x9c)
> > [ 12.120491] [<c034f014>] (dump_stack) from [<c0317a04>]
> > (verify_new_ex+0xc4/0xdc)
> > [ 12.128326] [<c0317a04>] (verify_new_ex) from [<c0317f50>]
> > (devcgroup_access_write+0x374/0x658)
> > [ 12.137426] [<c0317f50>] (devcgroup_access_write) from [<c00d2800>]
> > (cgroup_file_write+0x28/0x1bc)
> > [ 12.146796] [<c00d2800>] (cgroup_file_write) from [<c01f1670>]
> > (kernfs_fop_write+0xc0/0x1b8)
> > [ 12.155620] [<c01f1670>] (kernfs_fop_write) from [<c0177c94>]
> > (__vfs_write+0x1c/0xd8)
> > [ 12.163783] [<c0177c94>] (__vfs_write) from [<c0178594>]
> > (vfs_write+0x90/0x16c)
> > [ 12.171426] [<c0178594>] (vfs_write) from [<c0178db4>]
> > (SyS_write+0x44/0x9c)
> > [ 12.178806] [<c0178db4>] (SyS_write) from [<c000f680>]
> > (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c)
> >
> > Fix it by making sure rcu_read_lock() is held
> > around devcgroup_update_access().
>
> With this patch applied I got the following:
>
> [ 4.079102] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> mm/slub.c:1266
> [ 4.079105] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1, name: systemdthat didn't trigger here. maybe I didn't have lock debugging enabled. I'll have a look. -- balbi
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