FYI, we noticed the following commit: commit: aa5c2fd79ff4016228d3cdf96f4b3556ba100249 ("Generic XDP") url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/David-Miller/Generic-XDP/20170413-072710 in testcase: boot on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 420M caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +---------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | d92be7a41e | aa5c2fd79f | +---------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 12 | 0 | | boot_failures | 6 | 16 | | invoked_oom-killer:gfp_mask=0x | 6 | 6 | | Mem-Info | 6 | 6 | | Out_of_memory:Kill_process | 6 | 6 | | net/core/dev.c:#suspicious_rcu_dereference_check()usage | 0 | 16 | +---------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 6.797817] [ 6.798554] =============================== [ 6.799881] [ ERR: suspicious RCU usage. ] [ 6.801211] 4.11.0-rc5-01360-gaa5c2fd #26 Not tainted [ 6.802763] ------------------------------- [ 6.804090] net/core/dev.c:7912 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! [ 6.806662] [ 6.806662] other info that might help us debug this: [ 6.806662] [ 6.809387] [ 6.809387] rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 0 [ 6.811508] no locks held by swapper/0/1. [ 6.812801] [ 6.812801] stack backtrace: [ 6.814443] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.11.0-rc5-01360-gaa5c2fd #26 [ 6.816828] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.3-20161025_171302-gandalf 04/01/2014 [ 6.819769] Call Trace: [ 6.820736] dump_stack+0x82/0xb8 [ 6.821884] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xf7/0x100 [ 6.823305] free_netdev+0xf0/0x135 [ 6.824523] sbni_probe+0x287/0x2ba [ 6.825724] ? set_debug_rodata+0x12/0x12 [ 6.827026] net_olddevs_init+0x14/0x72 [ 6.828273] ? probe_list2+0x50/0x50 [ 6.829479] do_one_initcall+0x90/0x142 [ 6.831001] ? set_debug_rodata+0x12/0x12 [ 6.832295] kernel_init_freeable+0x1d0/0x258 [ 6.833695] ? rest_init+0x13b/0x13b [ 6.834897] kernel_init+0xe/0xf5 [ 6.836043] ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40 [ 6.861563] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6 [ 6.863348] arcnet: arcnet loaded [ 6.864497] arcnet:rfc1201: RFC1201 "standard" (`a') encapsulation support loaded [ 6.866859] arcnet:rfc1051: RFC1051 "simple standard" (`s') encapsulation support loaded [ 6.869379] arcnet:arc_rawmode: raw mode (`r') encapsulation support loaded To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/01org/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Kernel Test Robot