rcutree tree warning during P2P device support testing

[Johannes Berg]

On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 22:17 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > Hmm, why would stopping the supplicant cause brcmfmac to unload?? Or are
> > you saying you first stop the supplicant, which gets you that warning,
> > and then unload fails?
> 
> Indeed, upon stopping wpa_supplicant I get the warning. And doing a
> rmmod from the command line after that fails in the hang.

Right, ok.

> >> [ 1634.039095] WARNING: at kernel/rcutree.c:1960
> >> rcu_process_callbacks+0x469/0x560()
> > 
> >> [ 1634.133917] Call Trace:
> >> [ 1634.139833]  [<c1039c92>] warn_slowpath_common+0x72/0xa0
> >> [ 1634.148659]  [<c10c61f9>] ? rcu_process_callbacks+0x469/0x560
> >> [ 1634.157914]  [<c10c61f9>] ? rcu_process_callbacks+0x469/0x560
> >> [ 1634.167121]  [<c1039ce2>] warn_slowpath_null+0x22/0x30
> >> [ 1634.175725]  [<c10c61f9>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x469/0x560
> > 
> > Can't say I understand this warning ...
> >
> 
> At least we are on the same page then ;-)

It looks like some rcu head list corruption ... no idea really.

> The p2p device is already removed upon stopping wpa_supplicant through
> .del_virtual_intf() callback. Took a quick peek in
> net/mac80211/iface.c:ieee80211_if_remove() and wonder whether I should
> do cfg80211_unregister_wdev() in that code path as well. Guess so, right?

I think so, yes. Does the warning go away if you do? :)

johannes