Re: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in _raw_spin_lock_irq next-20240410

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Apr 11 2024 - 11:05:48 EST


On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 06:00:25PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 08:20:55PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> >
> > I use to notice kernel panic while running kunit tests
> > now I have noticed this
> >
> > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
> > KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range
> > pc : kunit_test_null_dereference (lib/kunit/kunit-test.c:119)
> > lr : kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter (lib/kunit/try-catch.c:31)
> >
> > The kunit tests run to completion and the system is stable.
> > Kernel did not panic.
> >
>
> [ Snip ]
>
> > <0>[ 76.808597] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> > <4>[ 76.809876] Modules linked in:
> > <4>[ 76.812055] CPU: 1 PID: 567 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G
> > B N 6.9.0-rc3-next-20240410 #1
> > <4>[ 76.812987] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> > <4>[ 76.814123] pstate: 12400009 (nzcV daif +PAN -UAO +TCO -DIT
> > -SSBS BTYPE=--)
> > <4>[ 76.814947] pc : kunit_test_null_dereference (lib/kunit/kunit-test.c:119)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is a new intentional NULL dereferencer that was added yesterday.
>
> Maybe these should have a big printk, "Intentional NULL dereference
> coming up!\n".
>

Can the backtrace be suppressed, similar to the warnings suppression I am
working on ?

Thanks,
Guenter