2.6.34-rc3: Badness at kernel/lockdep.c:2706

[Eric W. Biederman]

Could you try the fix Wolfram Sang sent to linux-kernel yesterday?

Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> writes:

> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:33 +0530, Sachin Sant wrote:
>> With 2.6.34-rc3 boot on a Power5 box :
>> 
>> loop: module loaded
>> BUG: key 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b not in .data!
>> ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> Badness at kernel/lockdep.c:2706
>> NIP: c00000000010a0a8 LR: c00000000010a08c CTR: c0000000000704a4
>> REGS: c0000001096d76f0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (2.6.34-rc3)
>> MSR: 8000000000029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR>  CR: 28000082  XER: 00000009
>> TASK = c0000001fa6f8000[1] 'swapper' THREAD: c0000001096d4000 CPU: 12
>> GPR00: 0000000000000000 c0000001096d7970 c000000001322e38 0000000000000001
>> GPR04: 0000000000000001 c0000000000c1ea8 0000000000000000 0000000000000002
>> GPR08: 0000000000000000 c000000001cc5a00 0000000000002422 c00000000137d768
>> GPR12: 0000000000000002 c00000000f66e400 0000000000d47940 0000000001c00000
>> GPR16: ffffffffffffffff 0000000002673148 00000000018ff984 0000000000000060
>> GPR20: 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 000000000253a291 00000000018ff990
>> GPR24: 00000000018ff988 c000000001229ef0 0000000000000000 c00000010793a730
>> GPR28: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b c00000010793afd8 c000000001299de0 c0000001096d7970
>> NIP [c00000000010a0a8] .lockdep_init_map+0x12c/0x538
>> LR [c00000000010a08c] .lockdep_init_map+0x110/0x538
>> Call Trace:
>> [c0000001096d7970] [c00000000010a074] .lockdep_init_map+0xf8/0x538 (unreliable)
>> [c0000001096d7a30] [c000000000274eac] .sysfs_add_file_mode+0x90/0x124
>> [c0000001096d7af0] [c000000000274f7c] .sysfs_add_file+0x3c/0x50
>> [c0000001096d7b90] [c0000000002750d8] .sysfs_create_file+0x5c/0x74
>> [c0000001096d7c30] [c0000000004b36a0] .device_create_file+0x40/0x5c
>> [c0000001096d7cd0] [c0000000004db384] .wf_register_control+0x108/0x178
>> [c0000001096d7d80] [c000000000a5f7cc] .wf_cpufreq_clamp_init+0x11c/0x16c
>> [c0000001096d7e20] [c00000000000a104] .do_one_initcall+0xb0/0x208
>> [c0000001096d7ed0] [c000000000a12568] .kernel_init+0x230/0x2f0
>> [c0000001096d7f90] [c000000000033b20] .kernel_thread+0x54/0x70
>> Instruction dump:
>> e93e8190 80090000 2f800000 409e03f8 48280539 60000000 2fa30000 419e03e8
>> e93e8198 80090000 2f800000 409e03d8 <0fe00000> 480003d0 e93e8140 fb9d0000
>> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
>
> 0x6b is POISON_FREE, so it seems to me sysfs made a boo-boo.

Interesting combination of debugging options there.  First time I have
seen BUG: xyz not in .data with a 0x6b address...

Eric