[next] arm: Internal error: Oops: 5 PC is at __read_once_word_nocheck

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 11:06:17PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 at 22:50, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 at 02:55, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 at 22:18, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju at linaro.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Ard and Russell,
> > > >
> > > > The boot test pass on linux next-20220310 tag with  KASAN=y on BeagleBoard x15
> > > > device. but LTP cve tests reproduced the reported kernel crash  [1].
> > > > From the available historical data I can confirm that this is an
> > > > intermittent issue on
> > > > BeagleBoard x15 devices.
> > > >
> > > > OTOH, the kernel crash is always reproducible on qemu-arm with KASAN=y
> > > > while booting which has been known to fail for a long time.
> > > >
> > > > From the Ardb tree I have boot tested qemu-arm with KASAN=y the reported
> > > > kernel crash is always reproducible.
> > > >
> > > > The build steps [3] and extra Kconfigs.
> > > >
> > > > - Naresh
> > > > [1] https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/4701310
> > > > [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/log/
> > > > [3] https://builds.tuxbuild.com/2661dIAPUjE2DMJvye91He2gus0/tuxmake_reproducer.sh
> > >
> > > Thanks Naresh. I'm having trouble to make sense of this, though. The
> > > linked output log appears to be from a build that lacks my 'ARM:
> > > entry: fix unwinder problems caused by IRQ stacks' patch, as it
> > > doesn't show any occurrences of call_with_stack() on any of the call
> > > stacks.
> > >
> > > Do you have a link to the vmlinux and zImage files for this build?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > vmlinux.xz:  https://builds.tuxbuild.com/26BmIasJnAyCii0SkgbKarkF369/vmlinux.xz
> > zImage: https://builds.tuxbuild.com/26BmIasJnAyCii0SkgbKarkF369/zImage
> > System.map: https://builds.tuxbuild.com/26BmIasJnAyCii0SkgbKarkF369/System.map
> > Build log: https://builds.tuxbuild.com/26BmIasJnAyCii0SkgbKarkF369/
> >
> 
> This kernel does not appear to have
> 
> ARM: unwind: set frame.pc correctly for current-thread unwinding
> ARM: entry: fix unwinder problems caused by IRQ stacks
> ARM: Revert "unwind: dump exception stack from calling frame"
> 
> so it is expected that the same issue is still being observed.
> 
> Could you please try -next with those patches applied?

I concur, from my inspection of the above referenced vmlinux file.

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