From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf1-f198.google.com (mail-pf1-f198.google.com [209.85.210.198]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 814C78E0002 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2019 12:07:08 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pf1-f198.google.com with SMTP id 74so32984395pfk.12 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2019 09:07:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from www262.sakura.ne.jp (www262.sakura.ne.jp. [202.181.97.72]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o195si13494927pfg.106.2019.01.02.09.07.06 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 02 Jan 2019 09:07:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: INFO: rcu detected stall in ndisc_alloc_skb References: <0000000000007beca9057e4c8c14@google.com> From: Tetsuo Handa Message-ID: Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 02:06:58 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: syzbot , David Miller , Alexey Kuznetsov , LKML , netdev , syzkaller-bugs , Hideaki YOSHIFUJI , Linux-MM On 2018/12/31 17:24, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: >>> Since this involves OOMs and looks like a one-off induced memory corruption: >>> >>> #syz dup: kernel panic: corrupted stack end in wb_workfn >>> >> >> Why? >> >> RCU stall in this case is likely to be latency caused by flooding of printk(). > > Just a hypothesis. OOMs lead to arbitrary memory corruptions, so can > cause stalls as well. But can be what you said too. I just thought > that cleaner dashboard is more useful than a large assorted pile of > crashes. If you think it's actionable in some way, feel free to undup. > We don't know why bpf tree is hitting this problem. Let's continue monitoring this problem. #syz undup