hi, Suren Baghdasaryan, On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 06:09:05PM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 7:26 AM kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > kernel test robot noticed "BUG:kernel_NULL_pointer_dereference,address" on: > > > > commit: 85ad413389aec04cfaaba043caa8128b76c6e491 ("mm: make vma cache SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU") > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git mm-unstable > > > > in testcase: boot > > > > config: i386-randconfig-141-20241208 > > compiler: gcc-11 > > test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 16G > > > > (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace) > > > > > > +------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ > > | | 98d5eefb97 | 85ad413389 | > > +------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ > > | BUG:kernel_NULL_pointer_dereference,address | 0 | 12 | > > | Oops | 0 | 12 | > > | EIP:lock_anon_vma_root | 0 | 12 | > > | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception | 0 | 12 | > > +------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ > > > > > > If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of > > the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags > > | Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx> > > | Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202412082208.db1fb2c9-lkp@xxxxxxxxx > > Thanks for the report! > It looks like anon_vma passed to lock_anon_vma_root() is NULL but it's > not obvious to me why my patch would cause that. > > Oliver, how can I reproduce this locally? > To reproduce: # build kernel cd linux cp config-6.13.0-rc1-00162-g85ad413389ae .config make -j$(nproc) HOSTCC=gcc-11 CC=gcc-11 ARCH=i386 olddefconfig prepare modules_prepare bzImage modules make -j$(nproc) HOSTCC=gcc-11 CC=gcc-11 ARCH=i386 INSTALL_MOD_PATH=<mod-install-dir> modules_install cd <mod-install-dir> find lib/ | cpio -o -H newc --quiet | gzip > modules.cgz git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k <bzImage> -m modules.cgz job-script # job-script is attached in this email # if come across any failure that blocks the test, # please remove ~/.lkp and /lkp dir to run from a clean state. config and job-script files are attached in original report. one thing we want to mention is this seems only reproducible with i386 config in our tests.