Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/139] 5.10.168-rc1 review

Naresh Kamboju
2023-02-14T13:21:51Z

On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 14:46, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Greg and Florian,
>
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 01:20, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2/13/23 06:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.168 release.
> > > There are 139 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 Feb 2023 14:46:51 +0000.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.10.168-rc1.gz
> > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.10.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> >
> > There is a regression coming from:
> >
> > nvmem: core: fix registration vs use race
> >
> > which causes the following to happen for MTD devices:
> >
> > [ 6.031640] kobject_add_internal failed for mtd0 with -EEXIST, don't
> > try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
> > [ 7.846965] spi-nor: probe of spi0.0 failed with error -17
> >
> > attached is a full log with the call trace. This does not happen with
> > v6.2-rc8 where the MTD partitions are successfully registered.qfprom
>
> Like said above,
> [ 5.965191] kobject_add_internal failed for qfprom0 with -EEXIST,
> don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
> [ 5.969110] qcom,qfprom: probe of 5c000.qfprom failed with error -17
>
> Following kernel crash noticed on arm64 Qcom dragonboard 410c
> device.
>
> We will bisect this problem and get back to you soon.

Our bisection found this as the first bad commit and reverting this patch
solved the reported problem.

first bad commit: [a4aee79941de8559ce6e28d47fad22efc89bfe92]
nvmem: core: fix registration vs use race

> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
>
> [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd030]
> [ 0.000000] Linux version 5.10.168-rc1 (tuxmake@tuxmake)
> (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 11.3.0-11) 11.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils
> for Debian) 2.40) #1 SMP PREEMPT @1676300748
> [ 0.000000] Machine model: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. APQ 8016 SBC
> ..
> [ 5.808975] usbhid: USB HID core driver
> [ 5.827592] genirq: irq_chip msmgpio did not update eff. affinity
> mask of irq 75
> [ 5.845725] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename
> '/devices/platform/soc/5c000.qfprom/qfprom0'
> [ 5.845994] CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.10.168-rc1 #1
> [ 5.853735] Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. APQ 8016 SBC (DT)
> [ 5.860077] Call trace:
> [ 5.866760] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1f0
> [ 5.868952] show_stack+0x20/0x30
> [ 5.872766] dump_stack+0x110/0x160
> [ 5.876068] sysfs_warn_dup+0x6c/0x90
> [ 5.879371] sysfs_create_dir_ns+0xf0/0x110
> [ 5.883201] kobject_add_internal+0xa0/0x324
> [ 5.887195] kobject_add+0x94/0x10c
> [ 5.891693] device_add+0xfc/0x780
> [ 5.894902] nvmem_register+0x6fc/0x930
> [ 5.898383] devm_nvmem_register+0x4c/0x94
> [ 5.902121] qfprom_probe+0x1e0/0x29c
> [ 5.906279] platform_drv_probe+0x5c/0xb4
> [ 5.910021] really_probe+0xf8/0x52c
> [ 5.914004] driver_probe_device+0xfc/0x170
> [ 5.917663] device_driver_attach+0xd0/0xe0
> [ 5.921567] __driver_attach+0xd4/0x194
> [ 5.925729] bus_for_each_dev+0x78/0xdc
> [ 5.929546] driver_attach+0x2c/0x40
> [ 5.933361] bus_add_driver+0x154/0x254
> [ 5.937183] driver_register+0x80/0x13c
> [ 5.940745] __platform_driver_register+0x50/0x5c
> [ 5.944583] qfprom_driver_init+0x24/0x30
> [ 5.949428] do_one_initcall+0x8c/0x470
> [ 5.953419] kernel_init_freeable+0x320/0x38c
> [ 5.957077] kernel_init+0x1c/0x128
> [ 5.961570] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x30
> [ 5.965191] kobject_add_internal failed for qfprom0 with -EEXIST,
> don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
> [ 5.969110] qcom,qfprom: probe of 5c000.qfprom failed with error -17
> [ 6.000014] netem: version 1.3
> [ 6.000346] ipip: IPv4 and MPLS over IPv4 tunneling driver
> [ 6.005040] gre: GRE over IPv4 demultiplexor driver
> [ 6.007652] ip_gre: GRE over IPv4 tunneling driver
> [ 6.018597] IPv4 over IPsec tunneling driver
> [ 6.024506] NET: Registered protocol family 10
> [ 6.031635] Segment Routing with IPv6
> [ 6.036627] ip6_gre: GRE over IPv6 tunneling driver
> [ 6.039047] NET: Registered protocol family 17
> [ 6.042070] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
> [ 6.045837] 9pnet: Installing 9P2000 support
> [ 6.049608] Key type dns_resolver registered
> [ 6.055585] registered taskstats version 1
> [ 6.057828] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates
> [ 6.393191] debugfs: Directory '4a9000.thermal-sensor' with parent
> 'tsens' already present!
>
>
> please refer following link for more details on boot and test logs,
> https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-5.10.y/build/v5.10.167-140-g65fa84413c15/testrun/14762346/suite/log-parser-test/test/check-kernel-exception/log
> https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-5.10.y/build/v5.10.167-140-g65fa84413c15/testrun/14762346/suite/log-parser-test/test/check-kernel-exception/details/
>
> metadata:
> git_ref: linux-5.10.y
> git_repo: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc
> git_sha: 65fa84413c15ee131ad4b76077c48f0603d1d8ec
> git_describe: v5.10.167-140-g65fa84413c15
> kernel_version: 5.10.168-rc1
> kernel-config:
> https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/2LglWCZtZStAHvQWoY1YTAIT2ws/config
> build-url: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc/-/pipelines/776087062
> artifact-location:
> https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/2LglWCZtZStAHvQWoY1YTAIT2ws
> toolchain: gcc-11
>

- Naresh

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