Re: ftrace: ftrace_bug, ftrace failed to modify nva3_ram_init

[Sasha Levin]

On 04/08/2014 10:59 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 10:26:56 -0400
> Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next
>> kernel, I've stumbled on the following:
>>
>> [ 2983.109380] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 744 at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1704 ftrace_bug+0xb0/0x280()
>> [ 2983.110893] Modules linked in:
>> [ 2983.111439] CPU: 0 PID: 744 Comm: trinity-main Tainted: G        W     3.14.0-next-20140407-sasha-00023-gd35b0d6 #382
> 
> What was the warning before this?

There was nothing before that in both cases I've seen this issue.

>> [ 2983.112845]  0000000000000009 ffff88002c4e3b88 ffffffffa252ee51 0000000000002420
>> [ 2983.113993]  0000000000000000 ffff88002c4e3bc8 ffffffff9f15a2dc ffffffff9fffffc0
>> [ 2983.115134]  ffff88018aaad530 ffffffffa0000000 000000000000ad53 ffffffffa6486e10
>> [ 2983.116221] Call Trace:
>> [ 2983.116603] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
>> [ 2983.117306] warn_slowpath_common (kernel/panic.c:419)
>> [ 2983.118252] ? nva3_ram_prog (drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/fb/ramnva3.c:318)
>> [ 2983.119091] ? nva3_ram_tidy (drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/fb/ramnva3.c:326)
>> [ 2983.119836] ? __fentry__ (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:106)
>> [ 2983.121379] warn_slowpath_null (kernel/panic.c:454)
>> [ 2983.122635] ftrace_bug (kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1704 (discriminator 3))
>> [ 2983.123688] ftrace_replace_code (arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:625 (discriminator 3))
>> [ 2983.124938] ftrace_modify_all_code (kernel/trace/ftrace.c:2011)
>> [ 2983.126208] arch_ftrace_update_code (arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:103 arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:680)
>> [ 2983.127613] ftrace_run_update_code (kernel/trace/ftrace.c:2088)
>> [ 2983.128540] ftrace_startup_enable (kernel/trace/ftrace.c:2114)
>> [ 2983.129392] ftrace_startup (kernel/trace/ftrace.c:2146)
>> [ 2983.130679] register_ftrace_function (kernel/trace/ftrace.c:4864)
>> [ 2983.131667] perf_ftrace_event_register (kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c:356)
>> [ 2983.132590] perf_trace_init (kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c:187 kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c:206)
>> [ 2983.133377] ? __lock_is_held (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3516)
>> [ 2983.134181] perf_tp_event_init (kernel/events/core.c:5937)
>> [ 2983.135043] perf_init_event (kernel/events/core.c:6598)
>> [ 2983.135882] ? perf_pmu_unregister (kernel/events/core.c:6577)
>> [ 2983.136803] perf_event_alloc (kernel/events/core.c:6754)
>> [ 2983.137831] SYSC_perf_event_open (kernel/events/core.c:7062)
>> [ 2983.138798] ? preempt_count_sub (kernel/sched/core.c:2526)
>> [ 2983.139643] ? context_tracking_user_exit (arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:809 (discriminator 2) kernel/context_tracking.c:182 (discriminator 2))
>> [ 2983.140912] ? context_tracking_user_exit (arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:809 (discriminator 2) kernel/context_tracking.c:182 (discriminator 2))
>> [ 2983.141941] SyS_perf_event_open (kernel/events/core.c:6990)
>> [ 2983.142771] tracesys (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:749)
>> [ 2983.144740] ---[ end trace 6321065f5978f85b ]---
>> [ 2983.145355] ftrace failed to modify nva3_ram_init (drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/fb/ramnva3.c:326)
>> [ 2983.146357]  actual: 90:66:66:66:90
> 
> Hmm, I wonder what the "ideal" nop is on this machine. But I think it
> should probably have been 66:66:66:66:90?
> 
> Is this reproducible?

It happened twice during the overnight fuzzing session, so while I can't
force it to happen again I'm assuming that it'll show up again if we
wait enough.


Thanks,
Sasha

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