On 12/4/18 8:48 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.7 release. > There are 139 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > let me know. > > Responses should be made by Thu Dec 6 10:36:22 UTC 2018. > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.19.7-rc1.gz > or in the git tree and branch at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.19.y > and the diffstat can be found below. > > thanks, > > greg k-h During functional tests for this v4.19 release, we faced a PANIC, described bellow, but unlikely related to this specific v4.19 version. First a WARN() at tcp_output.c: tcp_send_loss_probe(): ... /* Retransmit last segment. */ if (WARN_ON(!skb)) goto rearm_timer; ... [ 173.557528] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at /srv/oe/build/tmp-rpb-glibc/work-shared/juno/kernel-source/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:2485 tcp_send_loss_probe+0x164/0x1e8 [ 173.571425] Modules linked in: crc32_ce crct10dif_ce fuse [ 173.576804] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.19.7-rc1 #1 [ 173.583014] Hardware name: ARM Juno development board (r2) (DT) [ 173.588879] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO) [ 173.593629] pc : tcp_send_loss_probe+0x164/0x1e8 [ 173.598205] lr : tcp_send_loss_probe+0x70/0x1e8 [ 173.602692] sp : ffff00000800bcc0 [ 173.605976] x29: ffff00000800bcc0 x28: 0000000000000002 [ 173.611251] x27: 0000000000000001 x26: ffff00000961fac0 [ 173.616525] x25: ffff000008ce8d88 x24: ffff00000961f000 [ 173.621799] x23: ffff800974fb2000 x22: ffff800974fb2008 [ 173.627073] x21: 00000000000005a8 x20: 0000000000000000 [ 173.632346] x19: ffff800974fb1f80 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 173.637620] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 [ 173.642893] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000000 [ 173.648167] x13: 000000009100ad59 x12: ffff800976a14b68 [ 173.653440] x11: 0000000000000001 x10: ffff00000961f848 [ 173.658713] x9 : ffff0000096a8000 x8 : ffff00000961f848 [ 173.663987] x7 : ffff000008ce8dcc x6 : 000000015808f2bf [ 173.669260] x5 : 00ffffffffffffff x4 : 0000000000000015 [ 173.674534] x3 : 0000000000000002 x2 : 0000000000000020 [ 173.679808] x1 : ffff800974fb21d0 x0 : 0000000000000000 [ 173.685081] Call trace: [ 173.687507] tcp_send_loss_probe+0x164/0x1e8 [ 173.691738] tcp_write_timer_handler+0xf8/0x250 [ 173.696226] tcp_write_timer+0xe0/0x110 [ 173.700030] call_timer_fn+0xbc/0x3f0 [ 173.703660] expire_timers+0x104/0x220 [ 173.707376] run_timer_softirq+0xec/0x1a8 [ 173.711349] __do_softirq+0x114/0x554 [ 173.714978] irq_exit+0x144/0x150 [ 173.718263] __handle_domain_irq+0x6c/0xc0 [ 173.722321] gic_handle_irq+0x60/0xb0 [ 173.725949] el1_irq+0xb4/0x130 [ 173.729065] cpuidle_enter_state+0xbc/0x3f0 [ 173.733210] cpuidle_enter+0x34/0x48 [ 173.736753] call_cpuidle+0x44/0x78 [ 173.740209] do_idle+0x238/0x2b8 [ 173.743407] cpu_startup_entry+0x2c/0x30 [ 173.747295] secondary_start_kernel+0x190/0x1d8 [ 173.751782] irq event stamp: 1502997 [ 173.755330] hardirqs last enabled at (1502996): [<ffff000008e53c98>] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x38/0x80 [ 173.764377] hardirqs last disabled at (1502997): [<ffff0000080814fc>] do_debug_exception+0x164/0x1a8 [ 173.773424] softirqs last enabled at (1502992): [<ffff0000080f6df0>] _local_bh_enable+0x28/0x48 [ 173.782128] softirqs last disabled at (1502993): [<ffff0000080f74fc>] irq_exit+0x144/0x150 right after, a NULL dereference at tcp_rearm_rto(): [ 173.794928] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000020 [ 173.803649] Mem abort info: [ 173.806437] ESR = 0x96000004 [ 173.809484] Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 173.815368] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 173.818412] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 173.821543] Data abort info: [ 173.824399] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004 [ 173.828217] CM = 0, WnR = 0 [ 173.831178] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = 000000003f5193ed [ 173.837749] [0000000000000020] pgd=0000000000000000 [ 173.842732] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 173.848251] Modules linked in: crc32_ce crct10dif_ce fuse [ 173.853618] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G W 4.19.7-rc1 #1 [ 173.861198] Hardware name: ARM Juno development board (r2) (DT) [ 173.867060] pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO) [ 173.871805] pc : tcp_rearm_rto.part.38+0x7c/0xa8 [ 173.876378] lr : tcp_rearm_rto.part.38+0x7c/0xa8 [ 173.880948] sp : ffff00000800bc80 [ 173.884228] x29: ffff00000800bc80 x28: 0000000000000002 [ 173.889497] x27: 0000000000000001 x26: ffff00000961fac0 [ 173.894765] x25: ffff000008ce8d88 x24: ffff00000961f000 [ 173.900034] x23: ffff800974fb2000 x22: ffff800974fb2008 [ 173.905302] x21: 00000000000005a8 x20: 0000000000000000 [ 173.910570] x19: ffff800974fb1f80 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 173.915838] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 [ 173.921106] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000000 [ 173.926374] x13: 000000009100ad59 x12: ffff800976a14b68 [ 173.931642] x11: 0000000000000001 x10: ffff00000961f848 [ 173.936910] x9 : ffff0000096a8000 x8 : ffff00000961f848 [ 173.942178] x7 : ffff000008ce8dcc x6 : 000000015808f2bf [ 173.947446] x5 : 00ffffffffffffff x4 : 0000000000000015 [ 173.952714] x3 : 0000000000000002 x2 : 0000000000000020 [ 173.957982] x1 : ffff800974fb21d0 x0 : 0000000000000000 [ 173.963252] Process swapper/1 (pid: 0, stack limit = 0x000000000f373131) [ 173.969886] Call trace: [ 173.972308] tcp_rearm_rto.part.38+0x7c/0xa8 [ 173.976536] tcp_rearm_rto+0x40/0x60 [ 173.980077] tcp_send_loss_probe+0xc8/0x1e8 [ 173.984218] tcp_write_timer_handler+0xf8/0x250 [ 173.988703] tcp_write_timer+0xe0/0x110 [ 173.992502] call_timer_fn+0xbc/0x3f0 [ 173.996129] expire_timers+0x104/0x220 [ 173.999841] run_timer_softirq+0xec/0x1a8 [ 174.003810] __do_softirq+0x114/0x554 [ 174.007436] irq_exit+0x144/0x150 [ 174.010717] __handle_domain_irq+0x6c/0xc0 [ 174.014773] gic_handle_irq+0x60/0xb0 [ 174.018398] el1_irq+0xb4/0x130 [ 174.021509] cpuidle_enter_state+0xbc/0x3f0 [ 174.025651] cpuidle_enter+0x34/0x48 [ 174.029190] call_cpuidle+0x44/0x78 [ 174.032643] do_idle+0x238/0x2b8 [ 174.035838] cpu_startup_entry+0x2c/0x30 [ 174.039722] secondary_start_kernel+0x190/0x1d8 [ 174.044209] Code: d65f03c0 f9000fb4 91092260 94059dd4 (f9401014) Since this was a 1 time failure, and we couldn't reproduce it again, we couldn't KASAN the dereference, unfortunately. Thanks, -- Rafael D. Tinoco Linaro - Kernel Validation