Re: v5.15.57 regression - boot panic after retbleed backports with CONFIG_KPROBES_SANITY_TEST=y

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On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 08:11:00PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> [Re: v5.15.57 regression - boot panic after retbleed backports with CONFIG_KPROBES_SANITY_TEST=y] On 05/08/2022 (Fri 18:13) Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 04:04:38PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > > The panic comes from the sanity test code, but after trying to boil down the
> > > .config differences between the kitchen sink our test team uses, and a
> > > "defconfig", it seems there are at least a couple extra dependencies for
> > > creating a reproducer:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > 
> > >    rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
> > >    Kprobe smoke test: started
> > >    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffc110f3e7
> > >    #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
> > >    #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
> > >    PGD b2c60f067 P4D b2c60f067 PUD b2c611067 PMD 0
> > >    Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> > >    CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.15.57 #33
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Can you try the patch below?
> 
> [    2.529263] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
> [    2.530393] Kprobe smoke test: started
> [    2.555965] Kprobe smoke test: passed successfully
> [    2.556454] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
> 
> As per above, the same spot in the kprobe test seems to manage to not
> panic anymore and the remainder of the boot looks clean and normal.
> 
> I tested directly on vanilla v5.15.57.
> 
> Thanks for the quick response!

Great, can someone send a "real" patch for this then?

thanks,

greg k-h



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