Re: [PATCH 5.4 086/255] once: add DO_ONCE_SLOW() for sleepable contexts

From: Oleksandr Tymoshenko
Date: Fri Oct 28 2022 - 21:12:28 EST


Hello,

This commit causes the following panic in kernel built with clang
(GCC build is not affected):

[ 8.320308] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffff97216c6a [26/4066]
[ 8.330029] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[ 8.337263] #PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation
[ 8.344816] PGD 12e816067 P4D 12e816067 PUD 12e817063 PMD 800000012e2001e1
[ 8.354337] Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP PTI
[ 8.359178] CPU: 2 PID: 437 Comm: curl Not tainted 5.4.220 #15
[ 8.367241] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
[ 8.378529] RIP: 0010:__do_once_slow_done+0xf/0xa0
[ 8.384962] Code: 1b 84 db 74 0c 48 c7 c7 80 ce 8d 97 e8 fa e9 4a 00 84 db 0f 94 c0 5b 5d c3 66 90 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56
53 49 89 d7 49 89 f6 <c6> 07 01 48 c7 c7 80 ce 8d 97 e8 d2 e9 4a 00 48 8b 3d 9b de c9 00
[ 8.409066] RSP: 0018:ffffb764c02d3c90 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 8.415697] RAX: 4f51d3d06bc94000 RBX: d474b86ddf7162eb RCX: 000000007229b1d6
[ 8.424805] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff9791b4a0 RDI: ffffffff97216c6a
[ 8.434108] RBP: ffffb764c02d3ca8 R08: 0e81c130f1159fc1 R09: 1d19d60ce0b52c77
[ 8.443408] R10: 8ea59218e6892b1f R11: d5260237a3c1e35c R12: ffff9c3dadd42600
[ 8.452468] R13: ffffffff97910f80 R14: ffffffff9791b4a0 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 8.461416] FS: 00007eff855b40c0(0000) GS:ffff9c3db7a80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 8.471632] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 8.478763] CR2: ffffffff97216c6a CR3: 000000022ded0000 CR4: 00000000000006a0
[ 8.487789] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 8.496684] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 8.505443] Call Trace:
[ 8.508568] __inet_hash_connect+0x523/0x530
[ 8.513839] ? inet_hash_connect+0x50/0x50
[ 8.518818] ? secure_ipv4_port_ephemeral+0x69/0xe0
[ 8.525003] tcp_v4_connect+0x2c5/0x410
[ 8.529858] __inet_stream_connect+0xd7/0x360
[ 8.535329] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x10
... skipped ...


The root cause is the difference in __section macro semantics between 5.4 and
later LTS releases. On 5.4 it stringifies the argument so the ___done
symbol is created in a bogus section ".data.once", with double quotes:

% readelf -S vmlinux | grep data.once
[ 5] ".data.once" PROGBITS ffffffff82216c6a 01416c6a