Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/251] 5.15.47-rc2 review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-14T17:12:44Z

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 10:08:27AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 08:36:08AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 08:19:49PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.47 release.
> > > There are 251 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> > >
> > > Responses should be made by Wed, 15 Jun 2022 18:18:03 +0000.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> >
> > Build results:
> > total: 159 pass: 159 fail: 0
> > Qemu test results:
> > total: 488 pass: 488 fail: 0
> >
>
> I spoke a bit too early. I see the following backtrace in some qemu arm
> boot tests.
>
> BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, kdevtmpfs/15
> lock: noop_backing_dev_info+0x6c/0x3b0, .magic: 00000000, .owner: <none>/-1, .owner_cpu: 0
> CPU: 0 PID: 15 Comm: kdevtmpfs Not tainted 5.15.47-rc2-00252-g677f0128d0ed #1
> Hardware name: ARM RealView Machine (Device Tree Support)
> [<c01101d0>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010bc0c>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> [<c010bc0c>] (show_stack) from [<c0a10ae4>] (dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x90)
> [<c0a10ae4>] (dump_stack_lvl) from [<c0191250>] (do_raw_spin_lock+0xbc/0x124)
> [<c0191250>] (do_raw_spin_lock) from [<c02eb578>] (__mark_inode_dirty+0x1cc/0x704)
> [<c02eb578>] (__mark_inode_dirty) from [<c02e6a74>] (simple_setattr+0x44/0x5c)
> [<c02e6a74>] (simple_setattr) from [<c02d7a18>] (notify_change+0x400/0x45c)
> [<c02d7a18>] (notify_change) from [<c0a19ef8>] (devtmpfsd+0x1f8/0x2b8)
> [<c0a19ef8>] (devtmpfsd) from [<c014cf3c>] (kthread+0x150/0x17c)
> [<c014cf3c>] (kthread) from [<c0100120>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x34)
> Exception stack(0xd00dbfb0 to 0xd00dbff8)
> bfa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> bfc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> bfe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000
>
> This bisects to commit bc5d960d4e58 ("writeback: Fix inode->i_io_list not
> be protected by inode->i_lock error"). The problem is also seen in the
> mainline kernel. v5.15.y.queue and later are affected. Reverting the patch
> here and in mainline fixes the problem.

Thanks for letting me know. Hopefully it gets fixed in upstream...