Re: splat in kretprobe in get_task_mm(current)

[Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>]

Hi Peter,

(2014/06/04 6:53), Peter Moody wrote:
> 
> As a follow up, I can reliably reproduce this bug with the following code
> 
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
>   char *envp_[] = {NULL};
>   char *argv_[] = {argv[0]};
>   execve(argv[0], argv_, envp_);
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> run in parallel like so:
> 
> $ for x in $(seq 0 32) ; do ./a.out & done
> 
> giving me the following splat:.

Thank you for reporting that. I've tried to reproduce it with your code, but
not succeeded yet. Could you share us your kernel config too?

Thank you again,

> 
> [ 133.627336] BUG: spinlock cpu recursion on CPU#4, a.out/4643
> [ 133.627346]  lock: kretprobe_table_locks+0x1b80/0x2000, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: a.out/4630, .owner_cpu: 4
> [ 133.627350] CPU: 4 PID: 4643 Comm: a.out Tainted: G          IOE 3.15.0-rc8-splat+ #14
> [ 133.627351] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation T3500  /09KPNV, BIOS A10 01/21/2011
> [ 133.627353]  ffff8804d5ae0000 ffff8804a7b4fd48 ffffffff81773413 0000000000000007
> [ 133.627358]  ffffffff82843600 ffff8804a7b4fd68 ffffffff8176ec74 ffffffff82843600
> [ 133.627362]  ffffffff81a8b6a6 ffff8804a7b4fd88 ffffffff8176ec9f ffffffff82843600
> [ 133.627366] Call Trace:
> [ 133.627372]  [<ffffffff81773413>] dump_stack+0x46/0x58
> [ 133.627376]  [<ffffffff8176ec74>] spin_dump+0x8f/0x94
> [ 133.627379]  [<ffffffff8176ec9f>] spin_bug+0x26/0x2b
> [ 133.627384]  [<ffffffff810c4195>] do_raw_spin_lock+0x105/0x190
> [ 133.627389]  [<ffffffff8177c7c0>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x70/0x90
> [ 133.627394]  [<ffffffff817839dc>] ? kretprobe_hash_lock+0x6c/0x80
> [ 133.627398]  [<ffffffff8177a86e>] ? mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10
> [ 133.627401]  [<ffffffff817839dc>] kretprobe_hash_lock+0x6c/0x80
> [ 133.627404]  [<ffffffff8177f16d>] trampoline_handler+0x3d/0x220
> [ 133.627407]  [<ffffffff8177f0fe>] kretprobe_trampoline+0x25/0x57
> [ 133.627412]  [<ffffffff811e28e8>] ? do_execve+0x18/0x20
> [ 133.627415]  [<ffffffff817862a9>] stub_execve+0x69/0xa0
> 


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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com