When running with lockdep enabled, I triggered the WARN_ON() in the module code that asserts when module_mutex or rcu_read_lock_sched are not held. The issue I have is that this can also be called from the dump_stack() code, causing us to enter an infinite loop...
------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3-test-00013-g501c2375253c #14 Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014 ffff880215e8fa70 ffff880215e8fa70 ffffffff812fc8e3 0000000000000000 ffffffff81d3e55b ffff880215e8fac0 ffffffff8104fc88 ffffffff8104fcab 0000000915e88300 0000000000000046 ffffffffa019b29a 0000000000000001 Call Trace: [<ffffffff812fc8e3>] dump_stack+0x67/0x90 [<ffffffff8104fc88>] __warn+0xcb/0xe9 [<ffffffff8104fcab>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x5/0x1f ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3-test-00013-g501c2375253c #14 Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014 ffff880215e8f7a0 ffff880215e8f7a0 ffffffff812fc8e3 0000000000000000 ffffffff81d3e55b ffff880215e8f7f0 ffffffff8104fc88 ffffffff8104fcab 0000000915e88300 0000000000000046 ffffffffa019b29a 0000000000000001 Call Trace: [<ffffffff812fc8e3>] dump_stack+0x67/0x90 [<ffffffff8104fc88>] __warn+0xcb/0xe9 [<ffffffff8104fcab>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x5/0x1f ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3-test-00013-g501c2375253c #14 Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014 ffff880215e8f4d0 ffff880215e8f4d0 ffffffff812fc8e3 0000000000000000 ffffffff81d3e55b ffff880215e8f520 ffffffff8104fc88 ffffffff8104fcab 0000000915e88300 0000000000000046 ffffffffa019b29a 0000000000000001 Call Trace: [<ffffffff812fc8e3>] dump_stack+0x67/0x90 [<ffffffff8104fc88>] __warn+0xcb/0xe9 [<ffffffff8104fcab>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x5/0x1f ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e [...] Which gives us rather useless information. Worse yet, there's some race that causes this, and I seldom trigger it, so I have no idea what happened. This would not be an issue if that warning was a WARN_ON_ONCE(). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> --- diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 5f71aa63ed2a..51c89d86752c 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ static void module_assert_mutex_or_preempt(void) if (unlikely(!debug_locks)) return; - WARN_ON(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held() && + WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held() && !lockdep_is_held(&module_mutex)); #endif }
