Dmitry, I've had my X setup lock up a couple of times now, so I enabled pretty much every single debug option in the kernel, and tried to see if I could trigger anything. So I turned on list debugging, DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, kobject debugging, lockdep and sleep debugging etc. What I *did* trigger with all those options was a dead mouse. I'm not sure which debug option causes the dead mouse for me, but it's likely one of the DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE. I'll try to figure that out more. And trying to unplug and re-plug the mouse, I got this: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PTI CPU: 3 PID: 147 Comm: kworker/3:1 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc4-00071-g63f047771621 #2 Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/Z170-K, BIOS 3301 02/08/2017 Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event RIP: 0010:strlen+0x0/0x20 Code: f6 82 40 63 ef 9d 20 74 14 48 c7 c1 40 63 ef 9d 48 83 c0 01 0f b6 10 f6 04 11 20 75 f3 f3 c3 90 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 <80> 3f 00 48 89 f8 74 10 48 83 c7 01 80 3f RSP: 0018:ffff91fc42eff840 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 0000000000000007 RBX: 000000000000001a RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000006000c0 RDI: dead4ead00000000 RBP: ffff889396a386f8 R08: 00000000919b9af4 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff889396b36688 R13: 00000000006000c0 R14: 00000000fffffffe R15: ffff8893a2717a98 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8893b4ec0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f896b883940 CR3: 0000000202210003 CR4: 00000000003606e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: kobject_get_path+0x1d/0xe0 kobject_uevent_env+0xff/0x660 led_trigger_set+0x106/0x250 led_classdev_unregister+0x2d/0xc0 input_leds_disconnect+0x38/0x70 __input_unregister_device+0xac/0x170 input_unregister_device+0x41/0x60 hidinput_disconnect+0x75/0xe0 hid_disconnect+0x5f/0x70 hid_hw_stop+0xe/0x30 hidpp_remove+0x39/0xd0 [hid_logitech_hidpp] hid_device_remove+0x4f/0xb0 device_release_driver_internal+0x196/0x260 bus_remove_device+0xff/0x170 device_del+0x147/0x370 hid_destroy_device+0x22/0x60 logi_dj_remove+0x52/0xc0 [hid_logitech_dj] hid_device_remove+0x4f/0xb0 device_release_driver_internal+0x196/0x260 bus_remove_device+0xff/0x170 device_del+0x147/0x370 hid_destroy_device+0x22/0x60 usbhid_disconnect+0x43/0x60 usb_unbind_interface+0x7c/0x2a0 device_release_driver_internal+0x196/0x260 bus_remove_device+0xff/0x170 device_del+0x147/0x370 usb_disable_device+0x96/0x260 usb_disconnect+0xbe/0x2a0 hub_event+0x553/0x1620 process_one_work+0x272/0x6b0 worker_thread+0x3c/0x390 kthread+0x11e/0x140 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 Modules linked in: rfcomm fuse xt_CHECKSUM ipt_MASQUERADE tun nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_broadcast xt_CT ip6t_rpfilter ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 xt_conntrack ip_set ftdi_sio snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_hda_core snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm mei_me snd_timer snd mei i2c_i801 soundc ---[ end trace 797ae088d6f38ed9 ]--- RIP: 0010:strlen+0x0/0x20 Code: f6 82 40 63 ef 9d 20 74 14 48 c7 c1 40 63 ef 9d 48 83 c0 01 0f b6 10 f6 04 11 20 75 f3 f3 c3 90 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 <80> 3f 00 48 89 f8 74 10 48 83 c7 01 80 3f RSP: 0018:ffff91fc42eff840 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 0000000000000007 RBX: 000000000000001a RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000006000c0 RDI: dead4ead00000000 RBP: ffff889396a386f8 R08: 00000000919b9af4 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff889396b36688 R13: 00000000006000c0 R14: 00000000fffffffe R15: ffff8893a2717a98 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8893b4ec0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f896b883940 CR3: 0000000202210003 CR4: 00000000003606e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 That's 'strlen()' on a bogus pointer. In this case, the pointer in question is in %rdi, and it's 0xdead4ead00000000, which happens to be SPINLOCK_MAGIC in the high bits. In get_kobj_path_length(), we have code like this: if (kobject_name(parent) == NULL) return 0; length += strlen(kobject_name(parent)) + 1; and clearly "kobject_name(parent)" isn't NULL, because it's a wild invalid pointer. Now, "kobject_name()" loads the first word in the kobject as a pointer. So this smells like this is no longer a kobject, but something that has spinlock in the first word (with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, a spinlock first has the 32-bit "arch_spinlock_t", followed by a "unsigned int magic", so that would explain the SPINLOCK_MAGIC in the high bits. (Adding Greg too, just in case it's some kobject issue). Does this look at all familiar? Anything that has changed in this area recently? 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