I hit this RCU warning while running mkfs.ext4 on a PMEM namespace with an unmodified v4.11-rc8 (passed through kasan_symbolize.py): =============================== [ ERR: suspicious RCU usage. ] 4.11.0-rc8 #1 Not tainted ------------------------------- kernel/rcu/tree.c:1031 rcu_irq_enter() invoked with irqs enabled!!!! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 0 no locks held by mkfs.ext4/18493. stack backtrace: CPU: 10 PID: 18493 Comm: mkfs.ext4 Not tainted 4.11.0-rc8 #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.3-1.fc25 04/01/2014 Call Trace: [< inline >] __dump_stack project/linux/lib/dump_stack.c:16 [< none >] dump_stack+0x86/0xc3 project/linux/lib/dump_stack.c:52 [< none >] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xd7/0x110 project/linux/kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4461 [< none >] rcu_irq_enter+0x74/0x80 project/linux/kernel/rcu/tree.c:1031 [< none >] kvm_async_pf_task_wait+0x1af/0x240 project/linux/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c:164 [< none >] do_async_page_fault+0x63/0x90 project/linux/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c:269 ?[< none >] do_async_page_fault+0x63/0x90 project/linux/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c:269 [< none >] async_page_fault+0x28/0x30 project/linux_2/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:1014 RIP: 0010:copy_user_enhanced_fast_string+0x5/0x10 RSP: 0018:ffffc90008777c90 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000001000 RCX: 0000000000001000 RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007f42a5d88010 RDI: ffff88007e82d000 RBP: ffffc90008777ce0 R08: ffff88007e82d000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffea0001fa0b40 R12: 0000000000001000 R13: ffffc90008777e50 R14: ffff88007e82e000 R15: 0000000000001000 ?[< inline >] copy_user_generic project/linux/./arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:37 ?[< inline >] __copy_from_user_nocheck project/linux/./arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:59 ?[< inline >] __copy_from_user_inatomic project/linux/./arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:251 ?[< none >] iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic+0xbb/0x350 project/linux/lib/iov_iter.c:721 [< none >] generic_perform_write+0xf2/0x1d0 project/linux/mm/filemap.c:2843 [< none >] __generic_file_write_iter+0x185/0x1c0 project/linux/mm/filemap.c:2960 [< none >] blkdev_write_iter+0x96/0x110 project/linux/fs/block_dev.c:2008 [< inline >] call_write_iter project/linux/./include/linux/fs.h:1733 [< inline >] new_sync_write project/linux/fs/read_write.c:497 [< none >] __vfs_write+0xe8/0x160 project/linux/fs/read_write.c:510 ?[< inline >] call_write_iter project/linux/./include/linux/fs.h:1733 ?[< inline >] new_sync_write project/linux/fs/read_write.c:497 ?[< none >] __vfs_write+0xe8/0x160 project/linux/fs/read_write.c:510 [< none >] vfs_write+0xcb/0x1f0 project/linux/fs/read_write.c:558 [< inline >] SYSC_pwrite64 project/linux/fs/read_write.c:647 [< none >] SyS_pwrite64+0x98/0xc0 project/linux/fs/read_write.c:634 [< none >] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2 project/linux_2/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:204 RIP: 0033:0x7f42acd4d213 RSP: 002b:00007ffc846e4e38 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000012 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f42acd4d213 RDX: 00000000001e0000 RSI: 00007f42a5c9f010 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 0000559bd6c46380 R08: 00007f42a5c9f010 R09: 0000000000000200 R10: 0000000680820000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffc846e4f9c R13: 0000000000000425 R14: 0000000000000200 R15: 0000559bd6c46380
