Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible

Hi Jörn,

On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 09:37:03AM +0200, Jörn Heusipp wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 6.7.12-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> X-Debbugs-Cc: osm...@problemloesungsmaschine.de
> 
> Hello Debian kernel team!
> 
> 
> Linux 6.7.12-1 (686-pae) fails to boot for me on this system.
> 
> It hangs right after:
> ===
> Loading Linux 6.7.12-686-pae ...
> Loading initial ramdisk ...
> ===
> 
> Booting with 'earlyprintk=vga', I managed to capture a stack trace on video. I
> stitched together an image showing it as a whole:
> <https://manx.datengang.de/temp/linux-6.7.12-crash.png>, and also attached.
> 
> Trimmed transcription (might contain typos) of the crash (I can transcribe all
> of it if really needed, but I figured the type of crash and the trace itself
> could be sufficient):
> ===
> BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000010
> #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
> #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
> Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
> [...]
> EIP: __ring_buffer_alloc+0x32/0x194
> [...]
> show_regs
> __die
> page_fault_oops
> kernelmode_fixup_or_oops.constprop
> __bad_area_nosemaphore.constprop
> bad_area_nosemaphore
> do_user_addr_fault
> prb_read_valid
> exc_page_fault
> pvclock_clocksource_read_nowd
> handle_exception
> pvclock_clocksource_read_nowd
> __ring_buffer_alloc
> pvclock_clocksource_read_nowd
> __ring_buffer_alloc
> early_trace_init
> start_kernel
> i386_start_kernel
> startup_32_smp
> [...]
> ===
> 
> The line immediately before the crash reads
> "ftrace: allocated 78 pages with 4 groups".
> 
> linux 6.8.9-1 (686-pae) from unstable shows the same behaviour; it also
> crashes.
> 
> I am still running 6.6.15-2 on this box for now, which works completely fine
> (as did all Debian Testing kernels since at least the 2.6.32 days on this
> particular box). 6.7.12-1 (amd64) also works fine on all of my amd64 boxes.

I cannot reproduce this problem. If you still can with the recent
6.8.11-1 landed in unstable, you might try to bisect the changes in
upstream kernel to determine the breaking commit?

Regards,
Salvatore

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