Re: WARNING in kernfs_add_one

[Eric Dumazet]

On 05/05/2018 09:40 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 08:47:02AM -0700, syzbot wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> syzbot found the following crash on:
>>
>> HEAD commit:    8fb11a9a8d51 net/ipv6: rename rt6_next to fib6_next
>> git tree:       net-next
>> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=14b27237800000
>> kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=c416c61f3cd96be
>> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=df47f81c226b31d89fb1
>> compiler:       gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180413 (experimental)
>> syzkaller repro:https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=172fb3e7800000
>> C reproducer:   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=16552e57800000
>>
>> IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
>> Reported-by: syzbot+df47f81c226b31d89fb1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> RBP: 00007fff808f3e10 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 00007fff80003534
>> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffffffffffffffff
>> R13: 0000000000000006 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
>> ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> kernfs: ns required in 'ieee80211' for 'phy3'
> 
> That's interesting, this looks like a netfilter bug (adding netdev to
> the report here.)


I do not see anything netfilter related here.

More likely wireless territory

> 
> Yes, we can "tone down" the kernfs warning to just be an error message
> in the log, but there might be something worse going on here.
> 
> Network developers, any idea?  Rest of the callback chain is here:
> 
> 
>> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4538 at fs/kernfs/dir.c:759 kernfs_add_one+0x406/0x4d0
>> fs/kernfs/dir.c:758
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...
>>
>> CPU: 0 PID: 4538 Comm: syz-executor486 Not tainted 4.17.0-rc3+ #33
>> Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
>> Google 01/01/2011
>> Call Trace:
>>  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
>>  dump_stack+0x1b9/0x294 lib/dump_stack.c:113
>>  panic+0x22f/0x4de kernel/panic.c:184
>>  __warn.cold.8+0x163/0x1b3 kernel/panic.c:536
>>  report_bug+0x252/0x2d0 lib/bug.c:186
>>  fixup_bug arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:178 [inline]
>>  do_error_trap+0x1de/0x490 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:296
>>  do_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:315
>>  invalid_op+0x14/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:992
>> RIP: 0010:kernfs_add_one+0x406/0x4d0 fs/kernfs/dir.c:758
>> RSP: 0018:ffff8801ca9eece0 EFLAGS: 00010286
>> RAX: 000000000000002d RBX: ffffffff87d5cee0 RCX: ffffffff8160ba7d
>> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff81610731 RDI: ffff8801ca9ee840
>> RBP: ffff8801ca9eed20 R08: ffff8801d9538500 R09: 0000000000000006
>> R10: ffff8801d9538500 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8801ad1cb6c0
>> R13: ffffffff885da640 R14: 0000000000000020 R15: 0000000000000000
>>  kernfs_create_link+0x112/0x180 fs/kernfs/symlink.c:41
>>  sysfs_do_create_link_sd.isra.2+0x90/0x130 fs/sysfs/symlink.c:43
>>  sysfs_do_create_link fs/sysfs/symlink.c:79 [inline]
>>  sysfs_create_link+0x65/0xc0 fs/sysfs/symlink.c:91
>>  device_add_class_symlinks drivers/base/core.c:1612 [inline]
>>  device_add+0x7a0/0x16d0 drivers/base/core.c:1810
>>  wiphy_register+0x178a/0x2430 net/wireless/core.c:806
>>  ieee80211_register_hw+0x13cd/0x35d0 net/mac80211/main.c:1047
>>  mac80211_hwsim_new_radio+0x1d9b/0x3410
>> drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:2772
>>  hwsim_new_radio_nl+0x7a7/0xa60 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:3246
>>  genl_family_rcv_msg+0x889/0x1120 net/netlink/genetlink.c:599
>>  genl_rcv_msg+0xc6/0x170 net/netlink/genetlink.c:624
>>  netlink_rcv_skb+0x172/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2448
>>  genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:635
>>  netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1310 [inline]
>>  netlink_unicast+0x58b/0x740 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1336
>>  netlink_sendmsg+0x9f0/0xfa0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1901
>>  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:629 [inline]
>>  sock_sendmsg+0xd5/0x120 net/socket.c:639
>>  ___sys_sendmsg+0x805/0x940 net/socket.c:2117
>>  __sys_sendmsg+0x115/0x270 net/socket.c:2155
>>  __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2164 [inline]
>>  __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2162 [inline]
>>  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x78/0xb0 net/socket.c:2162
>>  do_syscall_64+0x1b1/0x800 arch/x86/entry/common.c:287
>>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
>> RIP: 0033:0x4404c9
>> RSP: 002b:00007fff808f3e08 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
>> RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000004404c9
>> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020b3dfc8 RDI: 0000000000000005
>> RBP: 00007fff808f3e10 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 00007fff80003534
>> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffffffffffffffff
>> R13: 0000000000000006 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
>> Dumping ftrace buffer:
>>    (ftrace buffer empty)
>> Kernel Offset: disabled
>> Rebooting in 86400 seconds..
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
>