Re: BUG: soft lockup in 4.10-rc7 with KASAN enabled

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Fri Feb 10 2017 - 05:23:56 EST


On 02/09/2017 03:46 PM, Tobias Regnery wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hit a soft lockup with 4.10-rc7 on ervery boot:
>

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> [ 32.452189] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 23s! [swapper/0:1]
> [ 32.452300] Modules linked in:
> [ 32.452388] CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G L 4.10.0-rc7-kasan #27
> [ 32.452504] Hardware name: LENOVO Lenovo IdeaPad N581/INVALID, BIOS 5ECN96WW(V9.01) 03/14/2013
> [ 32.452621] task: ffff88010a268000 task.stack: ffff88010a270000
> [ 32.452711] RIP: 0010:note_page+0x781/0xa60
> [ 32.452792] RSP: 0018:ffff88010a277d30 EFLAGS: 00000287 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff10
> [ 32.452911] RAX: fffffbfff228dde7 RBX: ffff88010a277e40 RCX: ffffffff900a3947
> [ 32.453000] RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffff88010a277e40 RDI: ffffffff9146ef38
> [ 32.453087] RBP: ffff88010a277da0 R08: 1ffffffff2290598 R09: ffffffff91b1a952
> [ 32.453173] R10: ffff8800bf3fffff R11: fffffbfff236352b R12: 8000000000000161
> [ 32.453261] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff9146ef20 R15: fffff698470e8000
> [ 32.453350] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88010b2c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 32.453467] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [ 32.453551] CR2: ffffffff90e40ea0 CR3: 00000000bf40d000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
> [ 32.453636] Call Trace:
> [ 32.453718] ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core+0x40c/0x550
> [ 32.453804] ? note_page+0xa60/0xa60
> [ 32.453890] ? free_reserved_area+0x131/0x140
> [ 32.453975] ? 0xffffffff90000000
> [ 32.454058] ptdump_walk_pgd_level_checkwx+0x17/0x20
> [ 32.454147] mark_rodata_ro+0x13b/0x150
> [ 32.454234] ? rest_init+0x90/0x90
> [ 32.454318] kernel_init+0x2f/0x120
> [ 32.454400] ? rest_init+0x90/0x90
> [ 32.454482] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40

Yeah, that's ptdump walks too long across huge KASAN shadow memory without rescheduling.
Patch to fix this will follow shortly.