Re: BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Fri Sep 28 2018 - 03:56:48 EST


On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > syzbot found the following crash on:
>> >
>> > HEAD commit: c307aaf3eb47 Merge tag 'iommu-fixes-v4.19-rc5' of git://gi..
>> > git tree: upstream
>> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=13810df1400000
>> > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=dfb440e26f0a6f6f
>> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=aaa6fa4949cc5d9b7b25
>> > compiler: gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180413 (experimental)
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this crash yet.
>> >
>> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
>> > Reported-by: syzbot+aaa6fa4949cc5d9b7b25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> +LOCKDEP maintainers,
>>
>> What does this BUG mean? And how should it be fixed?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> > BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!
>
> Is the his result of endlessly loading and unloading modules?
>
> In which case, the fix is: don't do that then.

No modules involved, we don't have any modules in the image. Must be
something else.
Perhaps syzkaller just produced a workload so diverse that nobody ever produced.