Re: [PATCH 0/9] TRACE_IRQFLAGS wreckage

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:20:46 +0200
Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 04:58PM +0200, peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 10:36:43AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:  
> > > 
> > > I tested this series on top of tip/master and triggered the below
> > > warning when running the irqsoff tracer boot up test (config attached).
> > > 
> > > -- Steve
> > > 
> > >  Testing tracer irqsoff: 
> > >  
> > >  =============================
> > >  WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> > >  5.9.0-rc1-test+ #92 Not tainted
> > >  -----------------------------
> > >  include/trace/events/lock.h:13 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!  
> ...
> > 
> > Shiny, I think that wants something like the below, but let me go frob
> > my config and test it.
> > 
> > ---
> > --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> > +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c  
> ...
> 
> With that applied (manually, due to conflicts), I still get warnings for
> certain call locations with KCSAN on (that is with my fix from the other
> email):
> 
> | =============================
> | WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> | 5.9.0-rc1+ #23 Tainted: G        W        
> | -----------------------------
> | include/trace/events/random.h:310 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
> | 
> | other info that might help us debug this:
> | 
> | 
> | rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 0
> | RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
> | no locks held by swapper/1/0.
> | 
> | stack backtrace:
> | CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G        W         5.9.0-rc1+ #23
> | Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1 04/01/2014
> | Call Trace:
> |  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
> |  dump_stack+0xf1/0x14d lib/dump_stack.c:118
> |  trace_prandom_u32 include/trace/events/random.h:310 [inline]
> |  prandom_u32+0x1ee/0x200 lib/random32.c:86
> |  prandom_u32_max include/linux/prandom.h:46 [inline]
> |  reset_kcsan_skip kernel/kcsan/core.c:277 [inline]
> |  kcsan_setup_watchpoint+0x9b/0x600 kernel/kcsan/core.c:424
> |  is_idle_task+0xd/0x20 include/linux/sched.h:1671 		<==== inline, but not noinstr
> |  irqentry_enter+0x17/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:293 		<==== noinstr function
> 

What happens if you apply the below patch?

-- Steve

diff --git a/lib/random32.c b/lib/random32.c
index 932345323af0..1c5607a411d4 100644
--- a/lib/random32.c
+++ b/lib/random32.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ u32 prandom_u32(void)
 	u32 res;
 
 	res = prandom_u32_state(state);
-	trace_prandom_u32(res);
+	trace_prandom_u32_rcuidle(res);
 	put_cpu_var(net_rand_state);
 
 	return res;