Hi Priyanka, The below warning shows up, probably related to this commit: 418a99ac6ad487dc9c42e6b0e85f941af56330f2 Replace rwlock on xfrm_policy_afinfo with rcu [ 0.921216] [ 0.921645] =============================== [ 0.922766] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] [ 0.923887] 3.5.0-01540-g1669891 #64 Not tainted [ 0.925123] ------------------------------- [ 0.932860] /c/kernel-tests/src/tip/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2504 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! [ 0.935361] [ 0.935361] other info that might help us debug this: [ 0.935361] [ 0.937472] [ 0.937472] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 [ 0.939182] 2 locks held by swapper/1: [ 0.940171] #0: (net_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [] register_pernet_subsys+0x21/0x57 [ 0.942705] #1: (rcu_read_lock_bh){......}, at: [] xfrm_net_init+0x1e4/0x437 [ 0.951507] [ 0.951507] stack backtrace: [ 0.952660] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.5.0-01540-g1669891 #64 [ 0.954364] Call Trace: [ 0.955074] [] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x174/0x187 [ 0.956736] [] xfrm_net_init+0x30e/0x437 [ 0.958205] [] ? xfrm_net_init+0x1e4/0x437 [ 0.959712] [] ops_init+0x1bb/0x1ff [ 0.961067] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x1b/0x24 [ 0.962644] [] register_pernet_operations.isra.5+0x9d/0xfe [ 0.971376] [] register_pernet_subsys+0x30/0x57 [ 0.972992] [] xfrm_init+0x17/0x2c [ 0.974316] [] ip_rt_init+0x82/0xe7 [ 0.975668] [] ip_init+0x10/0x25 [ 0.976952] [] inet_init+0x235/0x360 [ 0.978352] [] ? devinet_init+0xf2/0xf2 [ 0.979808] [] do_one_initcall+0xb4/0x203 [ 0.981313] [] kernel_init+0x1a9/0x29a [ 0.982732] [] ? loglevel+0x46/0x46 [ 0.990889] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [ 0.992472] [] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13 [ 0.994076] [] ? do_one_initcall+0x203/0x203 [ 0.995636] [] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 [ 0.997197] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 1.000074] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 7, 655360 bytes) Thanks, Fengguang