FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7): commit: 6471384af2a6530696fc0203bafe4de41a23c9ef ("mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot options") https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master in testcase: trinity with following parameters: runtime: 300s test-description: Trinity is a linux system call fuzz tester. test-url: http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/ on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 8G caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | ba5c5e4a5d | 6471384af2 | +------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 8 | 0 | | boot_failures | 2 | 15 | | invoked_oom-killer:gfp_mask=0x | 1 | | | Mem-Info | 1 | | | kernel_BUG_at_security/keys/keyring.c | 1 | | | invalid_opcode:#[##] | 1 | 15 | | RIP:__key_link_begin | 1 | | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception | 1 | 15 | | kernel_BUG_at_mm/slub.c | 0 | 15 | | RIP:kfree | 0 | 15 | +------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag Reported-by: kernel test robot [ 4.478342] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:306! [ 4.482437] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT PTI [ 4.485750] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.2.0-05754-g6471384a #4 [ 4.490635] RIP: 0010:kfree+0x58a/0x5c0 [ 4.493679] Code: 48 83 05 78 37 51 02 01 0f 0b 48 83 05 7e 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 7e 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 7e 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 d6 37 51 02 01 <0f> 0b 48 83 05 d4 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 d4 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 d4 [ 4.506827] RSP: 0000:ffffffff82603d90 EFLAGS: 00010002 [ 4.510475] RAX: ffff8c3976c04320 RBX: ffff8c3976c04300 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 4.515420] RDX: ffff8c3976c04300 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8c3976c04320 [ 4.520331] RBP: ffffffff82603db8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 4.525288] R10: ffff8c3976c04320 R11: ffffffff8289e1e0 R12: ffffd52cc8db0100 [ 4.530180] R13: ffff8c3976c01a00 R14: ffffffff810f10d4 R15: ffff8c3976c04300 [ 4.535079] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff8266b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 4.540628] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 4.544593] CR2: ffff8c397ffff000 CR3: 0000000125020000 CR4: 00000000000406b0 [ 4.549558] Call Trace: [ 4.551266] apply_wqattrs_prepare+0x154/0x280 [ 4.554357] apply_workqueue_attrs_locked+0x4e/0xe0 [ 4.557728] apply_workqueue_attrs+0x36/0x60 [ 4.560654] alloc_workqueue+0x25a/0x6d0 [ 4.563381] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1e3/0x500 [ 4.566628] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x44/0x3f0 [ 4.569875] workqueue_init_early+0x246/0x348 [ 4.573025] start_kernel+0x3c7/0x7ec [ 4.575558] x86_64_start_reservations+0x40/0x49 [ 4.578738] x86_64_start_kernel+0xda/0xe4 [ 4.581600] secondary_startup_64+0xb6/0xc0 [ 4.584473] Modules linked in: [ 4.586620] ---[ end trace f67eb9af4d8d492b ]--- To reproduce: # build kernel cd linux cp config-5.2.0-05754-g6471384a .config make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 olddefconfig prepare modules_prepare bzImage git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Rong Chen