Re: [writeback] 8bc4ad9498: INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]

[Tejun Heo]

(cc'ing Paul, hi!)

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 02:13:34PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 09/01/2016 04:21 AM, kernel test robot wrote:
> > [    7.323356] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> > [    7.334239]
> > [    7.337256] ===============================
> > [    7.340532] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
> > [    7.342419] 4.8.0-rc4-00008-g8bc4ad9 #1 Not tainted
> > [    7.347065] -------------------------------
> > [    7.350132] include/linux/cgroup.h:435 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
...
> > [    7.410074] Call Trace:
> > [    7.411328]  [<ffffffff8178ed3b>] dump_stack+0x82/0xb8
> > [    7.413982]  [<ffffffff81123472>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xf7/0x100
> > [    7.415828]  [<ffffffff817873f4>] bio_blkcg+0x89/0x93
> > [    7.417336]  [<ffffffff817891f0>] check_blkcg_changed+0x58/0x1b8
> > [    7.428722]  [<ffffffff81789b90>] cfq_set_request+0xd1/0x2a3
> > [    7.439690]  [<ffffffff81763fe3>] elv_set_request+0x1f/0x24
> > [    7.442157]  [<ffffffff8176856d>] get_request+0x38f/0x77f
> > [    7.447449]  [<ffffffff817689c2>] blk_get_request+0x65/0xa8
> > [    7.449868]  [<ffffffff81c692df>] ide_cd_queue_pc+0x76/0x19d
> > [    7.453757]  [<ffffffff81c695ee>] cdrom_check_status+0x51/0x53
> > [    7.455372]  [<ffffffff81c6a27e>] ide_cdrom_check_events_real+0x20/0x3f
> > [    7.457294]  [<ffffffff82579f94>] cdrom_update_events+0x18/0x21
> > [    7.458987]  [<ffffffff82579faf>] cdrom_check_events+0x12/0x1f
> > [    7.460713]  [<ffffffff81c68317>] idecd_check_events+0x1c/0x1e
> > [    7.462393]  [<ffffffff81778d12>] disk_check_events+0x47/0x103
> > [    7.464129]  [<ffffffff81778dea>] disk_events_workfn+0x1c/0x1e
> > [    7.465844]  [<ffffffff810fcafa>] process_one_work+0x272/0x4ee
> > [    7.467462]  [<ffffffff810fd247>] worker_thread+0x1eb/0x2c9

The warning is from

#define task_css_set_check(task, __c)					\
	rcu_dereference_check((task)->cgroups,				\
		lockdep_is_held(&cgroup_mutex) ||			\
		lockdep_is_held(&css_set_lock) ||			\
		((task)->flags & PF_EXITING) || (__c))

which is used by bio_blkcg() which is called by the following code in
check_blkcg_changed().

	rcu_read_lock();
	serial_nr = bio_blkcg(bio)->css.serial_nr;
	rcu_read_unlock();

So, I have no idea.  It looks like rcu_dereference_check() is being
called with rcu read locked but still triggering suspicious RCU usage
warning.

The code hasn't changed for quite a while now, so it's also really
weird that it's triggering now.  Paul, does anything ring a bell?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun