Re: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in idtentry_exit

Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-28T20:19:15Z

Paul,

"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> writes:
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 03:33:44PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> syzbot <syzbot+3ae5eaae0809ee311e75@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> writes:
>> Weird. I have no idea how that thing is an EQS here.
>
> No argument on the "Weird" part! ;-)
>
> Is this a NO_HZ_FULL=y kernel?

No, it has only NO_HZ_IDLE.

https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=47b0740d89299c10

> If so, one possibility is that the call
> to rcu_user_exit() went missing somehow. If not, then RCU should have
> been watching userspace execution.
>
> Again, the only thing I can think of (should this prove to be
> reproducible) is the rcu_dyntick trace event.

:)

Thanks,

tglx