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Re: [syzbot] [wireless?] WARNING in kcov_remote_start (3)

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On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 at 12:56, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 12:45 PM Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2024-03-28 at 04:00 -0700, syzbot wrote:
> > >
> > > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2400 at kernel/kcov.c:860 kcov_remote_start+0x549/0x7e0 kernel/kcov.c:860
> >
> > This is
> >
> >         /*
> >          * Check that kcov_remote_start() is not called twice in background
> >          * threads nor called by user tasks (with enabled kcov).
> >          */
> >         mode = READ_ONCE(t->kcov_mode);
> >         if (WARN_ON(in_task() && kcov_mode_enabled(mode))) {
> >                 local_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov_percpu_data.lock, flags);
> >                 return;
> >         }
> >
> > but I have no idea what that even means?
> >
> > > Workqueue: events_unbound cfg80211_wiphy_work
> > > RIP: 0010:kcov_remote_start+0x549/0x7e0 kernel/kcov.c:860
> > ...
> > > Call Trace:
> > >  <TASK>
> > >  kcov_remote_start_common include/linux/kcov.h:48 [inline]
> > >  ieee80211_iface_work+0x21f/0xf10 net/mac80211/iface.c:1654
> > >  cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x221/0x260 net/wireless/core.c:437
> > >  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3218 [inline]
> > >  process_scheduled_works+0xa2c/0x1830 kernel/workqueue.c:3299
> > >  worker_thread+0x86d/0xd70 kernel/workqueue.c:3380
> >
> > It's a worker thread. Was this not intended to be called in threads?
>
> I think the problem is that the KCOV annotations in the NFC code are
> buggy: kcov_remote_stop() is never called if the loop in nci_rx_work()
> exits on one of the breaks. With the recent addition of the nci_plen()
> check, this started happening often. But breaks existed in the loop
> before that too.
>
> We need to move kcov_remote_stop() into the loop and call it every
> time the loop exits.
>
> Dmitry, could you PTAL and confirm this? You added the annotation for
> NFC, AFAICS.


Missed this before somehow.
The other breaks seems to be from the switch, so should be fine:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.9-rc6/source/net/nfc/nci/core.c#L1528

Tetsuo, thanks for fixing it.





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