From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request from pty_write [was: Linux 4.4.2]
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:23:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160225142338.42e46f2c@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyeVmnNuk5pPoH05uPKZRSXt1hv_0PWuvndptqBSfPrbA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:09:35 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Jiri, were you messing around with tracing when this happened? Or
> maybe shutting down CPU's? There was a RCU locking problem with CPU
> shutdown, maybe this is one of the symptoms. The fix for that is
> recent, and not in 4.4.2.
>
> Adding Steven Rostedt to the cc. Steven, does that look like a possible case?
Possible: yes. Likely: no
The recent fix would require shutting down a CPU at the same time as a
tracepoint is enabled or disabled. Rather difficult to hit, but easier
on a virtual machine. If Jiri was not enabling/disabling tracepoints or
shutting down CPUs, then it would not be the bug.
But as the comm of the bug is gdb and this running on a virtual
machine, I think the bug may be elsewhere. Corrupt stack possibly?
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-25 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-17 20:37 Linux 4.4.2 Greg KH
2016-02-17 20:37 ` Greg KH
2016-02-25 10:12 ` BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request from pty_write [was: Linux 4.4.2] Jiri Slaby
2016-02-25 18:40 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-25 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-25 19:23 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2016-02-26 8:25 ` Jiri Slaby
2016-02-25 20:32 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-25 20:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-25 21:32 ` Jiri Slaby
2016-02-25 22:33 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-26 0:38 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-26 8:45 ` Jiri Slaby
2016-02-26 0:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-26 8:56 ` Jiri Slaby
2016-02-26 9:23 ` Jiri Slaby
2016-02-26 9:50 ` Jiri Slaby
2016-02-26 16:34 ` Greg KH
2016-02-26 17:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-29 15:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-26 17:52 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-25 21:43 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-25 22:00 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-02-26 8:31 ` Jiri Slaby
2016-02-26 8:15 ` Jiri Slaby
2016-02-26 18:05 Linus Torvalds
2016-02-26 18:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-26 18:18 ` Peter Hurley
2016-02-26 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-26 19:59 ` Robert Święcki
2016-02-29 7:39 ` Jiri Slaby
2016-02-29 12:43 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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