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From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage (5.11.0-rc7+ #1812 Tainted: G)
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Date:   Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:54:35 +0200
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Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 08:04:27PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> Hi Peter & Paul,
>> 
>> The traces below are present in the boot dmesg log on my Dell XPS13 9360.
>> 
>> I haven't had the time to look into this in detail yet, but here it goes in
>> case you know what's going on already.
>> 
>> Cheers!
>> 
>> 
>> [   86.762542] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
>> 
>> [   86.764298] =============================
>> [   86.764300] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
>> [   86.764302] 5.11.0-rc7+ #1812 Tainted: G          I      
>> [   86.764305] -----------------------------
>> [ 86.764307]
>> /scratch/rafael/work/linux-pm/include/linux/rhashtable.h:594
>> suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
>> [   86.764309] 
>>                other info that might help us debug this:
>> 
>> [   86.764311] 
>>                rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
>> [   86.764313] no locks held by swapper/1/0.
>> [   86.764316] 
>>                stack backtrace:
>> [ 86.764318] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G I 5.11.0-rc7+
>> #1812
>> [   86.764321] Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9360/, BIOS 1.3.5 05/08/2017
>> [   86.764323] Call Trace:
>> [   86.764325]  <IRQ>
>> [   86.764328]  dump_stack+0x77/0x97
>> [   86.764336]  ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr+0x218/0x2e0 [mac80211]
>> [ 86.764380] ?
>> ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_pull_mgmt_tx_bundle_compl_ev+0xe0/0xe0
>> [ath10k_core]
>> [   86.764399]  ath10k_wmi_tlv_parse_peer_stats_info+0x2a/0x70 [ath10k_core]
>> [   86.764411]  ath10k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x56/0xd0 [ath10k_core]
>> [   86.764424]  ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_rx+0x75a/0xa30 [ath10k_core]
>> [   86.764438]  ath10k_htc_rx_completion_handler+0xe8/0x120 [ath10k_core]
>> [   86.764452]  ? ath10k_htc_process_trailer+0x290/0x290 [ath10k_core]
>> [   86.764462]  ath10k_pci_process_rx_cb+0x117/0x180 [ath10k_pci]
>> [   86.764472]  ? ath10k_ce_per_engine_service+0x4c/0x80 [ath10k_core]
>> [   86.764490]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x47/0x60
>> [   86.764504]  ath10k_ce_per_engine_service+0x5d/0x80 [ath10k_core]
>> [   86.764524]  ath10k_ce_per_engine_service_any+0x6a/0xa0 [ath10k_core]
>> [   86.764543]  ath10k_pci_napi_poll+0x44/0x110 [ath10k_pci]
>> [   86.764552]  net_rx_action+0x15d/0x4e0
>> [   86.764570]  __do_softirq+0xeb/0x492
>> [   86.764583]  ? handle_fasteoi_irq+0x150/0x150
>> [   86.764591]  asm_call_irq_on_stack+0x12/0x20
>> [   86.764598]  </IRQ>
>> [   86.764602]  do_softirq_own_stack+0x81/0xa0
>> [   86.764609]  irq_exit_rcu+0xcd/0xe0
>> [   86.764614]  common_interrupt+0xfe/0x230
>> [   86.764623]  asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40
>> [   86.764626] RIP: 0010:cpuidle_enter_state+0x109/0x4a0
>> [ 86.764631] Code: 02 00 00 31 ff e8 b7 40 8e ff 45 84 ff 74 12 9c
>> 58 f6 c4 02 0f 85 10 03 00 00 31 ff e8 70 42 96 ff e8 bb a2 9d ff fb
>> 45 85 f6 <0f> 88 12 01 00 00 49 63 d6 4c 2b 24 24 48 8d 04 52 48 8d
>> 04 82 49
>> [   86.764634] RSP: 0018:ffffc900000e3e80 EFLAGS: 00000202
>> [   86.764638] RAX: 00000000000e8d89 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000
>> [   86.764641] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff82392561 RDI: ffffffff82344126
>> [   86.764643] RBP: ffffe8ffffc93300 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
>> [   86.764645] R10: ffffc900000e3e60 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 00000014338d5797
>> [   86.764647] R13: ffffffff827e6d60 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 0000000000000000
>> [   86.764667]  cpuidle_enter+0x29/0x40
>> [   86.764672]  do_idle+0x22d/0x2b0
>> [   86.764682]  cpu_startup_entry+0x19/0x20
>> [   86.764686]  start_secondary+0x125/0x160
>> [   86.764691]  secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb0/0xbb
>> 
>
> AFAICT that's a simple 'use RCU without holding rcu_read_lock' warning.
> I've not dug through ath10k to see who should be doing rcu_read_lock,
> but the few places I did look at don't seem to have changed recently.

Just this morning I applied a patch which should fix this:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=ath-next&id=2615e3cdbd9c0e864f5906279c952a309871d225

Please let me know if it fixes the issue.

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