Re: [6.3][regression] after commit 7170b7ed6acbde523c5d362c8978c60df4c30f30 my system stuck in initramfs forever

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

[CCing the regression list, as it should be in the loop for regressions:
https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/reporting-regressions.html]

On 25.02.23 14:51, Mikhail Gavrilov wrote:
> new kernel release cycle returning with new bugs
> Today my system got stuck in initramfs environment after updating to
> commit d2980d8d826554fa6981d621e569a453787472f8.
> 
> I still do not understand how to configure the network inside the
> initramfs environment to grab the logs.
> Since an attempt to rebuild the initramfs with all modules (dracut
> --no-hostonly --force) leads to the stuck initramfs environment and
> impossible entering into initramfs console.

Do you see any error messages? I have problems since Friday morning as
well (stuck in Fedora's initramfs) and see a lot of BPF warnings like
"BPF: invalid name" and "failed to validate module". Was able to do a
screenshot:

https://www.leemhuis.info/files/misc/Screenshot_ktst-f36-x86-64_2023-02-24_07:53:14.png

Funny detail: my Thursday morning built for my Fedora vanilla repos[1]
(which happened after the main net and thus bpf merge) worked; my Friday
morning built (which among others contained the kunit updates) was the
first to fail, so maybe we have the same problem. I did a quick
localmodconfig earlier today, which worked (but localmodconfig disabled
KUNIT, which might explain why it worked).

Ciao, Thorsten

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories

> But I can bisect the problem and bisection blames this commit:
> 
> ❯ git bisect good
> 7170b7ed6acbde523c5d362c8978c60df4c30f30 is the first bad commit
> commit 7170b7ed6acbde523c5d362c8978c60df4c30f30
> Author: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Sat Jan 28 15:10:07 2023 +0800
> 
>     kunit: Add "hooks" to call into KUnit when it's built as a module
> 
>     KUnit has several macros and functions intended for use from non-test
>     code. These hooks, currently the kunit_get_current_test() and
>     kunit_fail_current_test() macros, didn't work when CONFIG_KUNIT=m.
> 
>     In order to support this case, the required functions and static data
>     need to be available unconditionally, even when KUnit itself is not
>     built-in. The new 'hooks.c' file is therefore always included, and has
>     both the static key required for kunit_get_current_test(), and a table
>     of function pointers in struct kunit_hooks_table. This is filled in with
>     the real implementations by kunit_install_hooks(), which is kept in
>     hooks-impl.h and called when the kunit module is loaded.
> 
>     This can  be extended for future features which require similar
>     "hook" behaviour, such as static stubs, by simply adding new entries to
>     the struct, and the appropriate code to set them.
> 
>     Fixed white-space errors during commit:
>     Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>     Resolved merge conflicts with:
>     db105c37a4d6 ("kunit: Export kunit_running()")
>     This patch supersedes the above.
>     Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>     Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Rae Moar <rmoar@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>  Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst | 15 ++++++---------
>  include/kunit/test-bug.h                | 28 ++++++++++------------------
>  lib/Makefile                            |  8 ++++++++
>  lib/kunit/Makefile                      |  3 +++
>  lib/kunit/hooks-impl.h                  | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/kunit/hooks.c                       | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/kunit/test.c                        | 15 +++++++--------
>  7 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 lib/kunit/hooks-impl.h
>  create mode 100644 lib/kunit/hooks.c
> 
> Unfortunately I couldn't revert this commit staying on
> d2980d8d826554fa6981d621e569a453787472f8 because of conflicts:
> ❯ git revert 7170b7ed6acbde523c5d362c8978c60df4c30f30 -n
> Auto-merging include/kunit/test-bug.h
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in include/kunit/test-bug.h
> Auto-merging lib/Makefile
> Auto-merging lib/kunit/Makefile
> CONFLICT (modify/delete): lib/kunit/hooks-impl.h deleted in parent of
> 7170b7ed6acb (kunit: Add "hooks" to call into KUnit when it's built as
> a module) and modified in HEAD.  Version HEAD of
> lib/kunit/hooks-impl.h left in tree.
> Auto-merging lib/kunit/test.c
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in lib/kunit/test.c
> error: could not revert 7170b7ed6acb... kunit: Add "hooks" to call
> into KUnit when it's built as a module
> hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
> hint: with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
>