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From: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
Subject: GDB causing OOPS on insmod
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 15:26:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aQvdFfIhcMBpJdmJ@fedora> (raw)

I'm on a x86 defconfig + GDB_SCRIPTS + DEBUG_VM + PAGE_OWNER kernel. Running 
'lx-symbols' in gdb Before loading modules causes the kernel to OOPS on
module load:

[   13.627373] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000900
[   13.627376] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[   13.627377] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
[   13.627378] PGD 0 P4D 0 
[   13.627379] Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI
[   13.627383] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 279 Comm: insmod Not tainted 6.18.0-rc3+ #163 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
[   13.627384] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-6.fc43 04/01/2014
[   13.627385] RIP: 0010:__kernel_read+0x210/0x2f0
[   13.627390] Code: 00 40 0f 84 bd 00 00 00 48 3b 7f 18 0f 84 c3 00 00 00 48 89 f2 b9 02 00 00 00 44 89 d6 e8 78 6c 06 00 4d 01 ac 24 f0 08 00 00 <49> 83 84 24 00 09 00 00 01 48 8b 45 e0 65 48 2b 05 53 38 c7 01 0f
[   13.627391] RSP: 0018:ffffc900002f7c68 EFLAGS: 00010246
[   13.627393] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
[   13.627393] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000246 RDI: ffffffff82d47e70
[   13.627394] RBP: 00000000002f7cf8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[   13.627394] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[   13.627395] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffc900002f7d10 R15: ffffc900002f7d10
[   13.627399] FS:  00007f704851c740(0000) GS:ffff8880bba45000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   13.627401] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   13.627402] CR2: 0000000000000900 CR3: 00000000095f2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[   13.627406] Call Trace:
[   13.627407]  <TASK>
[   13.627409]  ? init_module_from_file+0x92/0xd0
[   13.627412]  ? init_module_from_file+0x92/0xd0
[   13.627414]  ? idempotent_init_module+0x109/0x2f0
[   13.627416]  ? __x64_sys_finit_module+0x60/0xb0
[   13.627418]  ? x64_sys_call+0x1a74/0x1da0
[   13.627421]  ? do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x290
[   13.627429]  ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[   13.627431]  </TASK>
[   13.627431] Modules linked in: test_xarray
[   13.627433] CR2: 0000000000000900
[   13.627434] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[   13.627435] RIP: 0010:__kernel_read+0x210/0x2f0
[   13.627437] Code: 00 40 0f 84 bd 00 00 00 48 3b 7f 18 0f 84 c3 00 00 00 48 89 f2 b9 02 00 00 00 44 89 d6 e8 78 6c 06 00 4d 01 ac 24 f0 08 00 00 <49> 83 84 24 00 09 00 00 01 48 8b 45 e0 65 48 2b 05 53 38 c7 01 0f
[   13.627438] RSP: 0018:ffffc900002f7c68 EFLAGS: 00010246
[   13.627439] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
[   13.627439] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000246 RDI: ffffffff82d47e70
[   13.627440] RBP: 00000000002f7cf8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[   13.627440] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[   13.627440] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffc900002f7d10 R15: ffffc900002f7d10
[   13.627442] FS:  00007f704851c740(0000) GS:ffff8880bba45000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   13.627444] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   13.627445] CR2: 0000000000000900 CR3: 00000000095f2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0

I used module test_xarray for the purpose of demonstration, but this does
happen with all modules.

I have no clue what patch caused this, or when this bug was introduced.
I played around with the scripts a bit and found the diff below eliminates
this issue entirely:

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py
index 6edb99221675..8b507907e044 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py
@@ -44,8 +44,7 @@ if hasattr(gdb, 'Breakpoint'):
                               "'{0}'\n".format(module_name))
                     cmd.load_all_symbols()
                 else:
-                    cmd.load_module_symbols(module)
-
+                    cmd.load_all_symbols()
             return False

Does anyone know what's going on here? And is this the fix we should upstream?

             reply	other threads:[~2025-11-05 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-05 23:26 Vishal Moola (Oracle) [this message]
2025-11-06  6:07 ` GDB causing OOPS on insmod Jan Kiszka
2025-11-06 15:31   ` Vishal Moola (Oracle)

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