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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	syzbot <syzbot+d29d18215e477cfbfbdd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: INFO: rcu detected stall in vprintk_emit
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:07:31 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180626050731.GB31439@jagdpanzerIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACT4Y+YWFhUk9cdpSR5+yR3+D6mNFUz2WwRcHULCNpj0-4qXyg@mail.gmail.com>

On (06/26/18 07:03), Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > I don't think this is a printk() issue per se, so I think Option B is
> > the only option. You should not get stuck in an infinite loop if we run
> > short on memory. Perhaps we could have an Option C which would exit
> > this loop gracefully with some kind of error. But I haven't looked at
> > the surrounding code to be sure if that is possible.
> 
> I suspect this is not even OOM.

Could be. But at the same time it stalls RCU, so OOM at some point
becomes realistic.

	-ss

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-26  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <000000000000720530056f7f9b63@google.com>
2018-06-26  1:49 ` INFO: rcu detected stall in vprintk_emit Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-06-26  2:59   ` Steven Rostedt
2018-06-26  4:22     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-06-26  5:03     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-06-26  5:07       ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2018-06-26  4:56   ` Dmitry Vyukov

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