WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at net/core/netpoll.c:370 netpoll_send_skb+0x1fc/0x20c at boot when netconsole is enabled (kernel v6.9-rc5, v6.8.7, sungem, PowerMac G4 DP)

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Tue, 7 May 2024 02:42:58 +0200 Erhard Furtner wrote:
> And indeed without gem_poll_controller() I don't hit the "WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at net/core/netpoll.c:370 netpoll_send_skb+0x1fc/0x20c" and "WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c:10 warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x30/0x44" or the according lockdep bug at boot!
> 
> Re-booted the machine about 20 times without anything suspicious showing up in the dmesg. With the unpatched kernel I got the WARNING at the 2nd reboot.

Excellent! Do you want to submit that as an official patch?
The explanation is that we can't call disable_irq() from atomic
context (which which netpoll runs). But the callback is no longer
necessary as we can depend on NAPI to do the polling these days.

> What I still get with 'modprobe -v dev_addr_lists_test', even with gem_poll_controller() removed is:
> 
> [...]
> KTAP version 1
> 1..1
>     KTAP version 1
>     # Subtest: dev-addr-list-test
>     # module: dev_addr_lists_test
>     1..6
> 
> ====================================
> WARNING: kunit_try_catch/1770 still has locks held!
> 6.9.0-rc6-PMacG4-dirty #5 Tainted: G        W        N
> ------------------------------------
> 1 lock held by kunit_try_catch/1770:
>  #0: c0dbfce4 (rtnl_mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: dev_addr_test_init+0xbc/0xc8 [dev_addr_lists_test]

I think that's fixed in net-next.