Hello, I've got the following warning while running syzkaller fuzzer: [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] 4.9.0-rc4+ #47 Not tainted ------------------------------- ./include/linux/kvm_host.h:536 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 1 lock held by syz-executor/6679: #0: [ 67.230820] ( stack backtrace: CPU: 1 PID: 6679 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 4.9.0-rc4+ #47 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 ffff880039e2f6d0 ffffffff81c2e46b ffff88003e3a5b40 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 ffffffff83215600 ffff880039e2f700 ffffffff81334ea9 ffffc9000730b000 0000000000000004 ffff88003c4f8420 ffff88003d3f8000 Call Trace: [< inline >] __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:15 [<ffffffff81c2e46b>] dump_stack+0xb3/0x118 lib/dump_stack.c:51 [<ffffffff81334ea9>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x139/0x180 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4445 [< inline >] __kvm_memslots include/linux/kvm_host.h:534 [< inline >] kvm_memslots include/linux/kvm_host.h:541 [<ffffffff8105d6ae>] kvm_gfn_to_hva_cache_init+0xa1e/0xce0 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1941 [<ffffffff8112685d>] kvm_lapic_set_vapic_addr+0xed/0x140 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:2217 [<ffffffff810a6ca4>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x224/0x3100 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:3425 [<ffffffff810604e2>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x1e2/0xdd0 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:2708 [< inline >] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:43 [<ffffffff816b03cc>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x18c/0x1040 fs/ioctl.c:679 [< inline >] SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:694 [<ffffffff816b130f>] SyS_ioctl+0x8f/0xc0 fs/ioctl.c:685 [<ffffffff831f0dc1>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2 __kvm_memslots requires a lock to be held, but it is not held: static inline struct kvm_memslots *__kvm_memslots(struct kvm *kvm, int as_id) { return rcu_dereference_check(kvm->memslots[as_id], srcu_read_lock_held(&kvm->srcu) || lockdep_is_held(&kvm->slots_lock)); } On commit 015ed9433be2b476ec7e2e6a9a411a56e3b5b035 (Nov 11). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html