FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7): commit: 5149a783b9655eb96bf418cf12a3d7786558df45 ("[RFC PATCH 2/2] selinux: Propagate RCU walk status from 'security_inode_follow_link()'") url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Will-Deacon/selinux-Don-t-call-avc_compute_av-from-RCU-path-walk/20191122-104223 in testcase: boot 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): +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | c7e8a6ea45 | 5149a783b9 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 4 | 0 | | boot_failures | 0 | 13 | | WARNING:at_security/selinux/avc.c:#avc_has_perm_flags | 0 | 13 | | RIP:avc_has_perm_flags | 0 | 13 | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:VFS:Unable_to_mount_root_fs_on_unknown-block(#,#) | 0 | 13 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag Reported-by: kernel test robot [ 4.885585] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 133 at security/selinux/avc.c:1156 avc_has_perm_flags+0x152/0x1f0 [ 4.885585] Modules linked in: [ 4.885585] CPU: 1 PID: 133 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc8-00017-g5149a783b9655 #1 [ 4.885585] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 4.885585] RIP: 0010:avc_has_perm_flags+0x152/0x1f0 [ 4.885585] Code: 04 75 aa 4c 8d 4c 24 20 4c 8d 44 24 0c 44 89 e1 44 89 ea 89 de 4c 89 f7 4c 89 1c 24 e8 f7 f0 ff ff 4c 8b 1c 24 e9 75 ff ff ff <0f> 0b b8 f3 ff ff ff eb a0 31 c0 44 8b 4c 24 14 41 21 d1 eb 8b 48 [ 4.885585] RSP: 0000:ffffb1fb4010fb00 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 4.885585] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000000000000a [ 4.885585] RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffffb9d30620 [ 4.885585] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000002 [ 4.885585] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffb1fb4010fba0 R12: ffff8c792a0e14d0 [ 4.885585] R13: ffff8c792a08da80 R14: ffffb1fb4010fd68 R15: ffff8c792a0e14d0 [ 4.885585] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8c793fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 4.885585] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 4.885585] CR2: 00000000ffffffff CR3: 00000001e240a000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 [ 4.885585] Call Trace: [ 4.885585] ? lookup_fast+0xc8/0x2b0 [ 4.885585] ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x30 [ 4.885585] selinux_inode_follow_link+0x84/0xb0 [ 4.885585] security_inode_follow_link+0x37/0x50 [ 4.885585] trailing_symlink+0xb7/0x260 [ 4.885585] path_openat+0xc6/0x1550 [ 4.885585] do_filp_open+0x9b/0x110 [ 4.885585] ? do_open_execat+0x83/0x1a0 [ 4.885585] do_open_execat+0x83/0x1a0 [ 4.885585] __do_execve_file+0x623/0x930 [ 4.885585] ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x30 [ 4.885585] ? yield_to+0x1c0/0x1c0 [ 4.885585] do_execve+0x21/0x30 [ 4.885585] call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x19a/0x1b0 [ 4.885585] ? recalc_sigpending+0x17/0x50 [ 4.885585] ? call_usermodehelper+0xa0/0xa0 [ 4.885585] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 [ 4.885585] ---[ end trace b767db40447c2290 ]--- To reproduce: # build kernel cd linux cp config-5.4.0-rc8-00017-g5149a783b9655 .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, lkp