I just noticed (via a bisect between v6.11 and v6.12-rc1) that this patch (commit f8d112a4e657 in linux-next tree) leads to a severe memory corruption error under these (rather rare) circumstances: 1. Start a 32bit windows game via steam (which uses proton, steam's version of wine) 2. When starting the game you the proton version used has to be updated The effect is the following: The updating process of proton hangs and the game does not start and even after an exit from steam two processes remain, one of them at 100% CPU: $ ps aux | grep rundll bert 222638 1.7 0.1 2054868 87492 ? Ss 23:14 0:01 C:\windows\syswow64\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection Wow64Install 128 \\?\Z:\mnt\data\.steam\debian-installation\steamapps\common\Proton - Experimental\files\share\wine\wine.inf bert 222639 99.8 0.0 2054868 2380 ? R 23:14 1:01 C:\windows\syswow64\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection Wow64Install 128 \\?\Z:\mnt\data\.steam\debian-installation\steamapps\common\Proton - Experimental\files\share\wine\wine.inf When trying to kill those processes with "killall rundll32.exe", these error happen: [ T4313] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ T4313] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 4313 at include/linux/rwsem.h:85 free_pgtables+0x233/0x250 [ T4313] Modules linked in: ccm snd_seq_dummy snd_hrtimer snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq snd_seq_device rfcomm bnep nls_ascii nls_cp437 vfat fat snd_ctl_led snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_scodec_component snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_intel btusb snd_intel_dspcfg btrtl snd_hda_codec btintel uvcvideo btbcm btmtk snd_acp3x_pdm_dma snd_soc_dmic snd_acp3x_rn videobuf2_vmalloc snd_hwdep uvc videobuf2_memops bluetooth snd_soc_core snd_hda_core videobuf2_v4l2 snd_pcm_oss videodev snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_rn_pci_acp3x videobuf2_common snd_acp_config snd_timer msi_wmi snd_soc_acpi ecdh_generic amd_atl ecc mc sparse_keymap edac_mce_amd snd wmi_bmof ccp soundcore snd_pci_acp3x k10temp ac battery button hid_sensor_prox hid_sensor_gyro_3d hid_sensor_accel_3d hid_sensor_magn_3d hid_sensor_als hid_sensor_trigger industrialio_triggered_buffer kfifo_buf industrialio hid_sensor_iio_common joydev amd_pmc evdev serio_raw mt7921e mt7921_common mt792x_lib mt76_connac_lib mt76 mac80211 libarc4 [ T4313] cfg80211 rfkill msr fuse nvme_fabrics efi_pstore configfs efivarfs autofs4 ext4 crc32c_generic mbcache jbd2 usbhid amdgpu amdxcp i2c_algo_bit drm_ttm_helper ttm drm_exec gpu_sched xhci_pci hid_sensor_hub drm_suballoc_helper xhci_hcd nvme i2c_piix4 drm_buddy mfd_core hid_multitouch hid_generic crc32c_intel psmouse usbcore drm_display_helper i2c_hid_acpi i2c_smbus amd_sfh usb_common i2c_hid nvme_core crc16 r8169 hid i2c_designware_platform i2c_designware_core [ T4313] CPU: 6 UID: 1000 PID: 4313 Comm: rundll32.exe Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-bisect-00259-gf8d112a4e657 #539 [ T4313] Hardware name: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Alpha 15 B5EEK/MS-158L, BIOS E158LAMS.107 11/10/2021 [ T4313] RIP: 0010:free_pgtables+0x233/0x250 [ T4313] Code: f3 5d 02 00 49 8b 57 08 e9 74 fe ff ff 48 8b 53 10 31 ed 48 8b 8a a8 00 00 00 83 e1 01 0f 85 51 ff ff ff 0f 0b e9 4a ff ff ff <0f> 0b e9 80 fe ff ff 4c 89 f7 4c 89 fb e8 bb 5d 02 00 e9 7b ff ff [ T4313] RSP: 0018:ffffb21c0775bbe0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ T4313] RAX: ffffa02298d5f8c0 RBX: ffffa023b115b780 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] RDX: ffffa022be442200 RSI: ffffa02290460d00 RDI: ffffa023b115b780 [ T4313] RBP: ffffa025b102ab40 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000008 [ T4313] R10: ffffa02284b42500 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001 [ T4313] R13: ffffffffffffffff R14: ffffb21c0775bc08 R15: ffffa025b102ab40 [ T4313] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0312e780000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ T4313] CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033 [ T4313] CR2: 00007f326de7e328 CR3: 0000000202832000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0 [ T4313] PKRU: 55555554 [ T4313] Call Trace: [ T4313] <TASK> [ T4313] ? __warn+0x83/0xb5 [ T4313] ? free_pgtables+0x233/0x250 [ T4313] ? report_bug+0xfa/0x140 [ T4313] ? handle_bug+0x3a/0x70 [ T4313] ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70 [ T4313] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 [ T4313] ? free_pgtables+0x233/0x250 [ T4313] exit_mmap+0x14d/0x2a0 [ T4313] mmput+0x3e/0xf0 [ T4313] do_exit+0x283/0x9b0 [ T4313] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ T4313] do_group_exit+0x2b/0x80 [ T4313] get_signal+0x78d/0x7d0 [ T4313] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ T4313] ? __do_wait+0x13d/0x250 [ T4313] arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x29/0x230 [ T4313] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ T4313] ? kernel_wait4+0xa7/0x140 [ T4313] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x154/0x1a0 [ T4313] do_int80_emulation+0x94/0x140 [ T4313] asm_int80_emulation+0x1a/0x20 [ T4313] RIP: 0023:0xf7ef9bc2 [ T4313] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xf7ef9b98. [ T4313] RSP: 002b:000000000050f9ec EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000072 [ T4313] RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00000000000010da RCX: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] </TASK> [ T4313] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ T4313] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode [ T4313] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page [ T4313] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ T4313] Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ T4313] CPU: 6 UID: 1000 PID: 4313 Comm: rundll32.exe Tainted: G W 6.11.0-rc6-bisect-00259-gf8d112a4e657 #539 [ T4313] Tainted: [W]=WARN [ T4313] Hardware name: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Alpha 15 B5EEK/MS-158L, BIOS E158LAMS.107 11/10/2021 [ T4313] RIP: 0010:__rb_erase_color+0x19e/0x260 [ T4313] Code: 48 89 ee 48 89 df 4c 89 e5 2e e8 ed 16 06 00 e9 a2 fe ff ff 48 89 68 10 eb e6 4c 8b 65 08 48 8d 43 01 4c 89 63 10 48 89 5d 08 <49> 89 04 24 48 8b 03 48 89 45 00 48 89 2b 48 83 f8 03 76 27 48 83 [ T4313] RSP: 0018:ffffb21c0775bb78 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ T4313] RAX: ffffa0228380ef39 RBX: ffffa0228380ef38 RCX: 00000000000000fb [ T4313] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffa02352021d80 RDI: ffffa0228380ef38 [ T4313] RBP: ffffa0228380e678 R08: 00000000000000fc R09: 0000000000000001 [ T4313] R10: 0000000000400035 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] R13: ffffffff83c46b90 R14: ffffa02352021d80 R15: ffffb21c0775bc08 [ T4313] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0312e780000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ T4313] CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033 [ T4313] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000202832000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0 [ T4313] PKRU: 55555554 [ T4313] Call Trace: [ T4313] <TASK> [ T4313] ? __die+0x51/0x92 [ T4313] ? page_fault_oops+0x99/0x210 [ T4313] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ T4313] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ T4313] ? vprintk_emit+0xc1/0x270 [ T4313] ? exc_page_fault+0x35e/0x660 [ T4313] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 [ T4313] ? __pfx_vma_interval_tree_augment_rotate+0x10/0x10 [ T4313] ? __rb_erase_color+0x19e/0x260 [ T4313] ? __rb_erase_color+0x183/0x260 [ T4313] unlink_file_vma_batch_add+0x8a/0xc0 [ T4313] free_pgtables+0x124/0x250 [ T4313] exit_mmap+0x14d/0x2a0 [ T4313] mmput+0x3e/0xf0 [ T4313] do_exit+0x283/0x9b0 [ T4313] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ T4313] do_group_exit+0x2b/0x80 [ T4313] get_signal+0x78d/0x7d0 [ T4313] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ T4313] ? __do_wait+0x13d/0x250 [ T4313] arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x29/0x230 [ T4313] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ T4313] ? kernel_wait4+0xa7/0x140 [ T4313] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x154/0x1a0 [ T4313] do_int80_emulation+0x94/0x140 [ T4313] asm_int80_emulation+0x1a/0x20 [ T4313] RIP: 0023:0xf7ef9bc2 [ T4313] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xf7ef9b98. [ T4313] RSP: 002b:000000000050f9ec EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000072 [ T4313] RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00000000000010da RCX: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] </TASK> [ T4313] Modules linked in: ccm snd_seq_dummy snd_hrtimer snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq snd_seq_device rfcomm bnep nls_ascii nls_cp437 vfat fat snd_ctl_led snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_scodec_component snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_intel btusb snd_intel_dspcfg btrtl snd_hda_codec btintel uvcvideo btbcm btmtk snd_acp3x_pdm_dma snd_soc_dmic snd_acp3x_rn videobuf2_vmalloc snd_hwdep uvc videobuf2_memops bluetooth snd_soc_core snd_hda_core videobuf2_v4l2 snd_pcm_oss videodev snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_rn_pci_acp3x videobuf2_common snd_acp_config snd_timer msi_wmi snd_soc_acpi ecdh_generic amd_atl ecc mc sparse_keymap edac_mce_amd snd wmi_bmof ccp soundcore snd_pci_acp3x k10temp ac battery button hid_sensor_prox hid_sensor_gyro_3d hid_sensor_accel_3d hid_sensor_magn_3d hid_sensor_als hid_sensor_trigger industrialio_triggered_buffer kfifo_buf industrialio hid_sensor_iio_common joydev amd_pmc evdev serio_raw mt7921e mt7921_common mt792x_lib mt76_connac_lib mt76 mac80211 libarc4 [ T4313] cfg80211 rfkill msr fuse nvme_fabrics efi_pstore configfs efivarfs autofs4 ext4 crc32c_generic mbcache jbd2 usbhid amdgpu amdxcp i2c_algo_bit drm_ttm_helper ttm drm_exec gpu_sched xhci_pci hid_sensor_hub drm_suballoc_helper xhci_hcd nvme i2c_piix4 drm_buddy mfd_core hid_multitouch hid_generic crc32c_intel psmouse usbcore drm_display_helper i2c_hid_acpi i2c_smbus amd_sfh usb_common i2c_hid nvme_core crc16 r8169 hid i2c_designware_platform i2c_designware_core [ T4313] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ T4313] RIP: 0010:__rb_erase_color+0x19e/0x260 [ T4313] Code: 48 89 ee 48 89 df 4c 89 e5 2e e8 ed 16 06 00 e9 a2 fe ff ff 48 89 68 10 eb e6 4c 8b 65 08 48 8d 43 01 4c 89 63 10 48 89 5d 08 <49> 89 04 24 48 8b 03 48 89 45 00 48 89 2b 48 83 f8 03 76 27 48 83 [ T4313] RSP: 0018:ffffb21c0775bb78 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ T4313] RAX: ffffa0228380ef39 RBX: ffffa0228380ef38 RCX: 00000000000000fb [ T4313] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffa02352021d80 RDI: ffffa0228380ef38 [ T4313] RBP: ffffa0228380e678 R08: 00000000000000fc R09: 0000000000000001 [ T4313] R10: 0000000000400035 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] R13: ffffffff83c46b90 R14: ffffa02352021d80 R15: ffffb21c0775bc08 [ T4313] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0312e780000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ T4313] CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033 [ T4313] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000043109c000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0 [ T4313] PKRU: 55555554 [ T4313] note: rundll32.exe[4313] exited with irqs disabled [ T4313] Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! [ T4313] BUG: scheduling while atomic: rundll32.exe/4313/0x00000000 [ T4313] Modules linked in: ccm snd_seq_dummy snd_hrtimer snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq snd_seq_device rfcomm bnep nls_ascii nls_cp437 vfat fat snd_ctl_led snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_scodec_component snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_intel btusb snd_intel_dspcfg btrtl snd_hda_codec btintel uvcvideo btbcm btmtk snd_acp3x_pdm_dma snd_soc_dmic snd_acp3x_rn videobuf2_vmalloc snd_hwdep uvc videobuf2_memops bluetooth snd_soc_core snd_hda_core videobuf2_v4l2 snd_pcm_oss videodev snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_rn_pci_acp3x videobuf2_common snd_acp_config snd_timer msi_wmi snd_soc_acpi ecdh_generic amd_atl ecc mc sparse_keymap edac_mce_amd snd wmi_bmof ccp soundcore snd_pci_acp3x k10temp ac battery button hid_sensor_prox hid_sensor_gyro_3d hid_sensor_accel_3d hid_sensor_magn_3d hid_sensor_als hid_sensor_trigger industrialio_triggered_buffer kfifo_buf industrialio hid_sensor_iio_common joydev amd_pmc evdev serio_raw mt7921e mt7921_common mt792x_lib mt76_connac_lib mt76 mac80211 libarc4 [ T4313] cfg80211 rfkill msr fuse nvme_fabrics efi_pstore configfs efivarfs autofs4 ext4 crc32c_generic mbcache jbd2 usbhid amdgpu amdxcp i2c_algo_bit drm_ttm_helper ttm drm_exec gpu_sched xhci_pci hid_sensor_hub drm_suballoc_helper xhci_hcd nvme i2c_piix4 drm_buddy mfd_core hid_multitouch hid_generic crc32c_intel psmouse usbcore drm_display_helper i2c_hid_acpi i2c_smbus amd_sfh usb_common i2c_hid nvme_core crc16 r8169 hid i2c_designware_platform i2c_designware_core [ T4313] CPU: 3 UID: 1000 PID: 4313 Comm: rundll32.exe Tainted: G D W 6.11.0-rc6-bisect-00259-gf8d112a4e657 #539 [ T4313] Tainted: [D]=DIE, [W]=WARN [ T4313] Hardware name: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Alpha 15 B5EEK/MS-158L, BIOS E158LAMS.107 11/10/2021 [ T4313] Call Trace: [ T4313] <TASK> [ T4313] dump_stack_lvl+0x58/0x90 [ T4313] __schedule_bug.cold+0x3e/0x4a [ T4313] __schedule+0xed3/0x12d0 [ T4313] ? irq_work_queue+0x2d/0x50 [ T4313] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ T4313] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ T4313] ? vprintk_emit+0xc1/0x270 [ T4313] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ T4313] ? _printk+0x57/0x72 [ T4313] do_task_dead+0x3d/0x40 [ T4313] make_task_dead.cold+0xcc/0xd8 [ T4313] rewind_stack_and_make_dead+0x16/0x20 [ T4313] RIP: 0023:0xf7ef9bc2 [ T4313] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xf7ef9b98. [ T4313] RSP: 002b:000000000050f9ec EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000072 [ T4313] RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00000000000010da RCX: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ T4313] </TASK> After that sometimes a kernel panic happen sometimes trying to reboot is still possible but even then the reboot fails due to the mentioned processes being unkillable. Bert Karwatzki
