Re: WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:1473 __queue_work+0x3b8/0x3d0

[Corentin Labbe]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 01:09:10PM -0400, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 07:50:22PM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 04:30:17PM -0500, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> > > Barring other ideas, Corentin, would you be willing to boot with
> > > 
> > >     trace_event=initcall:*,module:* trace_options=stacktrace
> > > 
> > > and
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> > > index 33569a01d6e1..393be6979a27 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/module.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/module.c
> > > @@ -3604,8 +3604,11 @@ static noinline int do_init_module(struct module *mod)
> > >  	 * be cleaned up needs to sync with the queued work - ie
> > >  	 * rcu_barrier()
> > >  	 */
> > > -	if (llist_add(&freeinit->node, &init_free_list))
> > > +	if (llist_add(&freeinit->node, &init_free_list)) {
> > > +		pr_warn("%s: schedule_work for mod=%s\n", __func__, mod->name);
> > > +		dump_stack();
> > >  		schedule_work(&init_free_wq);
> > > +	}
> > >  
> > >  	mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
> > >  	wake_up_all(&module_wq);
> > > 
> > > but not my earlier fix and share the dmesg and ftrace output to see if the
> > > theory holds?
> > > 
> > > Also, could you attach your config?  Curious now what your crypto options look
> > > like after fiddling with some of them today while trying and failing to see
> > > this on x86.
> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > > Daniel
> > 
> > Hello
> > 
> > Sorry for the very delayed answer.
> > 
> > I fail to reproduce it on x86 (qemu and  real hw) and arm.
> > It seems to only happen on arm64.
> 
> Thanks for the config and dmesg, but there's no ftrace.  I see it's not
> configured in your kernel, so could you boot with my earlier debug patch plus
> this one and the kernel argument initcall_debug instead?
> 
> I'm trying to see whether it really is a request module call from the crypto
> tests that's triggering this warning.  Preeetty likely that's what's happening,
> but want to be sure since I can't reproduce this.  Then I can post the fix.
> 

I have added CONFIG_FTRACE=y and your second patch.
The boot log can be seen at http://kernel.montjoie.ovh/108789.log

But it seems the latest dump_stack addition flood a bit.
I have started to read ftrace documentation, but if you have a quick what to do in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing, it will be helpfull.