[syzbot] BUG: soft lockup in handle_mm_fault (2)

Fri Sep 17 00:36:14 PDT 2021

On Mon, 6 Sept 2021 at 23:12, Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> wrote:
>
> On 9/6/21 12:20 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 06.09.21 20:53, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >> On 9/6/21 10:46 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >>> On 06.09.21 19:33, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>>> (cc's added)
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sun, 05 Sep 2021 18:05:40 -0700 syzbot <syzbot+aa7a876b8108f1622bc3 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> syzbot found the following issue on:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> HEAD commit:    49624efa65ac Merge tag 'denywrite-for-5.15' of git://githu..
> >>>>> git tree:       upstream
> >>>>> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=12eff4b3300000
> >>>>> kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=c598149362d97396
> >>>>> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=aa7a876b8108f1622bc3
> >>>>> compiler:       aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.1
> >>>>> userspace arch: arm64
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
> >>>>> Reported-by: syzbot+aa7a876b8108f1622bc3 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> >>>>>
> >>>>> watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [syz-executor.1:26449]
> >>>>> Modules linked in:
> >>>>> irq event stamp: 248
> >>>>> hardirqs last  enabled at (247): [<ffff8000145ed108>] __exit_to_kernel_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:81 [inline]
> >>>>> hardirqs last  enabled at (247): [<ffff8000145ed108>] exit_to_kernel_mode+0x38/0x230 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:91
> >>>>> hardirqs last disabled at (248): [<ffff8000145ed0c0>] enter_el1_irq_or_nmi+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:227
> >>>>> softirqs last  enabled at (182): [<ffff800010010964>] _stext+0x964/0xff8
> >>>>> softirqs last disabled at (41): [<ffff800010160f58>] do_softirq_own_stack include/asm-generic/softirq_stack.h:10 [inline]
> >>>>> softirqs last disabled at (41): [<ffff800010160f58>] invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:439 [inline]
> >>>>> softirqs last disabled at (41): [<ffff800010160f58>] __irq_exit_rcu+0x208/0x4f0 kernel/softirq.c:636
> >>>>> CPU: 0 PID: 26449 Comm: syz-executor.1 Not tainted 5.14.0-syzkaller-09416-g49624efa65ac #0
> >>>>> Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> >>>>> pstate: 00000005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
> >>>>> pc : clear_page+0x14/0x28 arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S:23
> >>>>> lr : clear_highpage include/linux/highmem.h:181 [inline]
> >>>>> lr : kernel_init_free_pages.part.0+0x6c/0x17c mm/page_alloc.c:1286
> >>>>> sp : ffff800019be75e0
> >>>>> x29: ffff800019be75e0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000
> >>>>> x26: ffff000009d64940 x25: ffff6000013ac928 x24: 00000000000014c0
> >>>>> x23: ffff000009d63480 x22: fffffc0000173340 x21: ffff800015794a78
> >>>>> x20: dfff800000000000 x19: fffffc0000173300 x18: 0000000000000000
> >>>>> x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
> >>>>> x14: 1ffff0000337ce86 x13: 0000000000000013 x12: ffff7f800002e667
> >>>>> x11: 1fffff800002e666 x10: ffff7f800002e666 x9 : 0000000000000000
> >>>>> x8 : ffff600000b99a00 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f
> >>>>> x5 : 0000000000000040 x4 : 1ffff00003060d98 x3 : 1fffe000013ac691
> >>>>> x2 : 0000000000000004 x1 : 0000000000000040 x0 : ffff000005ccc880
> >>>>> Call trace:
> >>>>>    clear_page+0x14/0x28 arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S:21
> >>>>>    kernel_init_free_pages mm/page_alloc.c:1283 [inline]
> >>>>>    post_alloc_hook+0x1ac/0x25c mm/page_alloc.c:2426
> >>>>>    prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2436 [inline]
> >>>>>    get_page_from_freelist+0x184c/0x2320 mm/page_alloc.c:4168
> >>>>>    __alloc_pages+0x1a8/0x21d0 mm/page_alloc.c:5390
> >>>>>    alloc_pages_vma+0xbc/0x530 mm/mempolicy.c:2252
> >>>>>    alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable+0x9c/0xd0 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:926
> >>>>>    do_anonymous_page mm/memory.c:3767 [inline]
> >>>>>    handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:4556 [inline]
> >>>>>    __handle_mm_fault+0xbc4/0x2210 mm/memory.c:4693
> >>>>>    handle_mm_fault+0x1dc/0x4f0 mm/memory.c:4791
> >>>>>    __do_page_fault arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:499 [inline]
> >>>>>    do_page_fault+0x230/0x8c0 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:599
> >>>>>    do_translation_fault+0x1a4/0x210 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:680
> >>>>>    do_mem_abort+0x64/0x1c0 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:813
> >>>>>    el0_da+0x7c/0x2b0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:481
> >>>>>    el0t_64_sync_handler+0x168/0x1b0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:616
> >>>>>    el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:572
> >>>
> >>> At first sight, looks unrelated. Being stuck in clear_page() is weird; we're running inside a VM ("dummy-virt"), whereby such stuck tasks in the guests are sometimes the result of the hypervisor being stuck (e.g., heavily overcommitted).
> >>>
> >> Unrelated to your series, yes, because it was first reported after commit ebf435d3b51b
> >> ("Merge tag 'staging-5.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging")
> >> which predates your series.
> >>
> >>> If we don't get a reproducer, that's most probably the root cause. Let's see.
> >>>
> >>
> >> That seems unlikely. The problem was seen 8 times by now, starting September 2.
> >
> > .. always in a similar setup? (even the same hypervisor involved ?)
> >
> > I've seen these exact symptoms
> >
> > a) when the hypervisor was heavily overcommitting
> > b) the hypervisor was using uffd (e.g., for psotcopy live migration) and not properly resolving faults in user space for the VM process
> >
> > It would happen when the VM would first access some yet unpopulated page in the hypervisor.
> >
> > But obviously, could be something else, especially once we spot it on real HW. But it smells like the VM is slow.
> >
> >
> > I can spot: https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/c/l6RsKu3FhT0/m/7we3AMNxAAAJ
> >
> > "This is also due to arm64 removal of CMDLINE support.
> > syzbot sets watchdog_thresh=165, but this fired after 22s. "
> >
> > and there, it was also "dummy-virt" ... so maybe really a slow/overloaded hypervisor.
> >
> Ah yes, obviously that error is not new. I stand corrected.

+linux-arm-kernels

This is caused by broken CONFIG_CMDLINE support on arm64, for context see:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CACT4Y+a4S-oXsjgwDh3SmERqKFF1QbapvX6NiSpn51KRtqvTiQ@mail.gmail.com/

syzbot should use 150s stall timeout, but it got's default 20s which
produces false positive flakes.