On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Felipe Balbi wrote: > while booting AM437x device, the following splat > triggered: > > [ 12.005238] =============================== > [ 12.009749] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] > [ 12.014116] 4.2.0-next-20150831 #1154 Not tainted > [ 12.019050] ------------------------------- > [ 12.023408] security/device_cgroup.c:405 device_cgroup:verify_new_ex called without proper synchronization! > [ 12.033576] other info that might help us debug this: > > [ 12.041942] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 > [ 12.048796] 4 locks held by systemd/1: > [ 12.052700] #0: (sb_writers#7){.+.+.+}, at: [<c017af84>] __sb_start_write+0x8c/0xb0 > [ 12.060954] #1: (&of->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c01f1600>] kernfs_fop_write+0x50/0x1b8 > [ 12.069085] #2: (s_active#30){++++.+}, at: [<c01f1608>] kernfs_fop_write+0x58/0x1b8 > [ 12.077310] #3: (devcgroup_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<c0317bfc>] devcgroup_access_write+0x20/0x658 > [ 12.086575] stack backtrace: > [ 12.091124] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.2.0-next-20150831 #1154 > [ 12.098609] Hardware name: Generic AM43 (Flattened Device Tree) > [ 12.104807] [<c001770c>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0013a58>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) > [ 12.112924] [<c0013a58>] (show_stack) from [<c034f014>] (dump_stack+0x84/0x9c) > [ 12.120491] [<c034f014>] (dump_stack) from [<c0317a04>] (verify_new_ex+0xc4/0xdc) > [ 12.128326] [<c0317a04>] (verify_new_ex) from [<c0317f50>] (devcgroup_access_write+0x374/0x658) > [ 12.137426] [<c0317f50>] (devcgroup_access_write) from [<c00d2800>] (cgroup_file_write+0x28/0x1bc) > [ 12.146796] [<c00d2800>] (cgroup_file_write) from [<c01f1670>] (kernfs_fop_write+0xc0/0x1b8) > [ 12.155620] [<c01f1670>] (kernfs_fop_write) from [<c0177c94>] (__vfs_write+0x1c/0xd8) > [ 12.163783] [<c0177c94>] (__vfs_write) from [<c0178594>] (vfs_write+0x90/0x16c) > [ 12.171426] [<c0178594>] (vfs_write) from [<c0178db4>] (SyS_write+0x44/0x9c) > [ 12.178806] [<c0178db4>] (SyS_write) from [<c000f680>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c) > > Fix it by making sure rcu_read_lock() is held > around devcgroup_update_access(). With this patch applied I got the following: [ 4.079102] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:1266 [ 4.079105] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1, name: systemd [ 4.079108] 5 locks held by systemd/1: [ 4.079110] #0: (sb_writers#7){.+.+.+}, at: [<00000000002c4450>] vfs_write+0x180/0x1a8 [ 4.079120] #1: (&of->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<0000000000354d32>] kernfs_fop_write+0x6a/0x1a0 [ 4.079127] #2: (s_active#7){++++.+}, at: [<0000000000354d3e>] kernfs_fop_write+0x76/0x1a0 [ 4.079133] #3: (devcgroup_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<00000000003f3f7e>] devcgroup_access_write+0x46/0x7b8 [ 4.079143] #4: (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<00000000003f3f38>] devcgroup_access_write+0x0/0x7b8 [ 4.079149] Preemption disabled at:[<00000000001ab52c>] vprintk_default+0x44/0x58 [ 4.079155] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.2.0-02744-g65a9959-dirty #170 [ 4.079157] 0000000075c079b0 0000000075c07a40 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 0000000075c07ae0 0000000075c07a58 0000000075c07a58 0000000000113e9e 0000000000000000 000000000089c4f4 000000000087b700 000000000000000b 0000000075c07aa0 0000000075c07a40 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000113e9e 0000000075c07a40 0000000075c07aa0 [ 4.079239] Call Trace: [ 4.079242] ([<0000000000113d7e>] show_trace+0xfe/0x160) [ 4.079244] [<0000000000113e50>] show_stack+0x70/0xf0 [ 4.079247] [<00000000006bb184>] dump_stack+0x7c/0xd8 [ 4.079250] [<0000000000164e42>] ___might_sleep+0x19a/0x268 [ 4.079255] [<00000000002bbc06>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x2fe/0x460 [ 4.079258] [<0000000000275fee>] kmemdup+0x3e/0x68 [ 4.079260] [<00000000003f3dda>] dev_exception_add+0x4a/0x130 [ 4.079262] [<00000000003f459e>] devcgroup_access_write+0x666/0x7b8 [ 4.079265] [<00000000001ea100>] cgroup_file_write+0x50/0x1f0 [ 4.079267] [<0000000000354e1a>] kernfs_fop_write+0x152/0x1a0 [ 4.079269] [<00000000002c38f2>] __vfs_write+0x42/0x108 [ 4.079272] [<00000000002c4362>] vfs_write+0x92/0x1a8 [ 4.079274] [<00000000002c50fe>] SyS_write+0x66/0xd8 [ 4.079277] [<00000000006c4f26>] system_call+0xd6/0x258 [ 4.079279] [<000003fffd5cda58>] 0x3fffd5cda58 [ 4.079281] 5 locks held by systemd/1: [ 4.079282] #0: (sb_writers#7){.+.+.+}, at: [<00000000002c4450>] vfs_write+0x180/0x1a8 [ 4.079289] #1: (&of->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<0000000000354d32>] kernfs_fop_write+0x6a/0x1a0 [ 4.079295] #2: (s_active#7){++++.+}, at: [<0000000000354d3e>] kernfs_fop_write+0x76/0x1a0 [ 4.079301] #3: (devcgroup_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<00000000003f3f7e>] devcgroup_access_write+0x46/0x7b8 [ 4.079307] #4: (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<00000000003f3f38>] devcgroup_access_write+0x0/0x7b8 grep RCU .config # RCU Subsystem CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y # CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT is not set CONFIG_SRCU=y CONFIG_TASKS_RCU=y CONFIG_RCU_STALL_COMMON=y # CONFIG_TREE_RCU_TRACE is not set # CONFIG_RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT is not set # RCU Debugging CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y # CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY is not set # CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER is not set CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST=m # CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT is not set # CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT is not set # CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP is not set CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=300 # CONFIG_RCU_TRACE is not set # CONFIG_RCU_EQS_DEBUG is not set Regards, Sebastian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html