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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 09:45:53 -0800
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [BUG] workqueues and printk not playing nice since next-20240130
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 10:25:15PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (24/02/05 14:07), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > Good point, if it does recur, I could try it on bare metal.
> > 
> > Please, me, John, and Sergey know if anyone see this again. I do not
> > feel comfortable when there is problem which might make consoles calm.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > Bisection identified this commit:
> > 5797b1c18919 ("workqueue: Implement system-wide nr_active enforcement for unbound workqueues")
> 
> That commit triggered early boot use-after-free (per kasan) on
> my system, which probably could derail some things.

And enabling KASAN on next-20240130 got me that same KASAN report and
also suppressed the misbehavior, which is not surprising given that
KASAN quarantines free memory for some time.  Plus enabling KASAN
on recent -next does not trigger that KASAN report.

So my guess is that we can attribute my oddball test failures to
that use after free.  But I will of course continue testing.

							Thanx, Paul