Re: WARNING in batadv_is_on_batman_iface

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 12:00 PM Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, 30 December 2018 11.41.03 CET syzbot wrote:
> [...]
> > HEAD commit:    d8924c0d76aa Merge tag 'devprop-4.21-rc1' of git://git.ker..
> > git tree:       upstream
> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=122a373f400000
> > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=91a256823ef17263
> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c764de0fcfadca9a8595
> > compiler:       gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180413 (experimental)
> > syz repro:      https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=16fd1d67400000
> >
> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > Reported-by: syzbot+c764de0fcfadca9a8595@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> What is the bug here? The kernel module showed a warning because the parent
> device cannot be found in the same netns using __dev_get_by_index.
>
> The test system was just configured to panic on warnings. So are we now
> expected to show warnings or what is the expected behavior?
>
> This behavior was added with commit b7eddd0b3950 ("batman-adv: prevent using
> any virtual device created on batman-adv as hard-interface") - 3d48811b27f5 in
> the out-of-tree module.

Hi Sven,

The problem is that kernel code uses WARNING when it should not.
For WARN guidelines please see this:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.20/source/include/asm-generic/bug.h#L81
and this (search for WARN_ON_ONCE):
https://lwn.net/Articles/769365/


> Kind regards,
>         Sven
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b7eddd0b3950ea9dc863f1cbfa30d172dbf772f4